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Searching for Caleb

By Anne Tyler

By Anne Tyler

By Anne Tyler

By Anne Tyler

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Paperback $16.00

Aug 27, 1996 | ISBN 9780449911747

Ebook $11.99

Feb 23, 2011 | ISBN 9780307788382

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    About Searching for Caleb

    The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings us a novel that is “funny and lyric and true” (The New Yorker).

    Through the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime era to the thumping, rocking beats of the 1970s, generations of Pecks have maintained a determined steadiness. Adamantly middle class—Peck-proud, as the family slogan goes—they are quick to sweep under the rug those members who do not live up to their standards. Maybe that’s why Caleb Peck took off with his violincello as a boy? Sixty years later, his brother Daniel is still wondering. No longer willing to live without answers, he turns to his daughter-in-law, Justine, another Peck family eccentric. A studied tarot card reader, Justine comes across one message over and over in the cards: change is coming. With Daniel’s help, she’s hoping to find the courage to embrace whatever happens next.

    An unlikely pair struggling against a stifling family, Daniel and Justine believe they’ll find freedom in just the right mix of magic, music, and mystery.

    About Searching for Caleb

    The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings us a novel that is “funny and lyric and true” (The New Yorker).

    Through the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime era to the thumping, rocking beats of the 1970s, generations of Pecks have maintained a determined steadiness. Adamantly middle class—Peck-proud, as the family slogan goes—they are quick to sweep under the rug those members who do not live up to their standards. Maybe that’s why Caleb Peck took off with his violincello as a boy? Sixty years later, his brother Daniel is still wondering. No longer willing to live without answers, he turns to his daughter-in-law, Justine, another Peck family eccentric. A studied tarot card reader, Justine comes across one message over and over in the cards: change is coming. With Daniel’s help, she’s hoping to find the courage to embrace whatever happens next.

    An unlikely pair struggling against a stifling family, Daniel and Justine believe they’ll find freedom in just the right mix of magic, music, and mystery.

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    Also by Anne Tyler

    French Braid
    Redhead by the Side of the Road
    Teenage Wasteland
    Clock Dance
    Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
    See all books by Anne Tyler

    About Anne Tyler

    ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015…. More about Anne Tyler

    About Anne Tyler

    ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015…. More about Anne Tyler

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 27, 1996 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780449911747

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 23, 2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780307788382
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    Praise

    “Reading [Tyler], one is constantly being startled by such moments: gestures, words, wrinkles of thought and feeling that are at once revelatory and exactly right.” —The New York Times

    “Funny and lyric and true, exquisite in its details and ambitious in its design.” —John Updike, The New Yorker

    “An astounding confidence, depth and range” —The Boston Globe

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