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Book Review of Back When We Were Grownups

Back When We Were Grownups
Back When We Were Grownups
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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I enjoyed listening to the life of Rebecca and the noisy, rowdy, difficult members of the Davitch family. When Rebecca marries Joseph Davitch, she becomes the stepmother of his three kids, then has a daughter of her own. Her husband dies in a car crash, after which yet more Davitches come to live with her. Somehow, Rebecca--in the midst of her own troubles--holds it all together, but, she begins to suspect, at the cost of her own self.