Books by Anne Tyler
“They’re on a beach holiday as a family. Delia, the mother, ends up hitchhiking and setting up in a new town. I think what’s great is that she ends up reproducing the domestic frustrations of the life she had left behind, because she turns out to be somebody who is really helpful, and can’t stop being helpful. I think that’s true of a lot of pioneering stories: you have this idea that you’re going to leave everything behind and start afresh, but inevitably you end up reproducing the world you left behind, because there was a reason that was your world in the first place.” Read more...
Benjamin Markovits, Novelist
Interviews where books by Anne Tyler were recommended
The Best Road Trip Novels, recommended by Benjamin Markovits
Why do so many people fantasise about getting in their cars and driving away from everything they know? The novelist Ben Markovits reflects on the near-universal urge to get out on the open road, as he recommends five of the best road trip novels—from Jack Kerouac to Anne Tyler.
