It's always hard to say just what an Anne Tyler novel is **about**, since they tend to be slice-of-life portraits of people at crossroads. This one actually covers 50+ years, following a young couple who meet in the emotion-charged days after Pearl Harbor, marry after a whirlwind wartime courtship, and proceed to shred each other to pieces for 30 years. The novel doesn't end with their divorce, however, but wanders on in episodic updates as children grow up, the lost is found, and people die.
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