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“EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD!”
—Newsweek
“A joy to read … not just for entertainment, but for enlightenment, too.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“Marvelous, astringent, hilarious, [and] strewn with the banana peels of love.”
—Cosmopolitan
“A deeply moving consideration of family relationships.”
—Houston Chronicle
“Tyler’s characters have character: quirks, odd angles of vision, colorful mean streaks, and harmonic longings.”
—Time
Also by Anne Tyler
IF MORNING EVER COMESTHE TIN CAN TREEA SLIPPING-DOWN LIFETHE CLOCK WINDERCELESTIAL NAVIGATIONSEARCHING FOR CALEBEARTHLY POSSESSIONSMORGAN’S PASSINGTHE ACCIDENTAL TOURISTBREATHING LESSONSSAINT MAYBELADDER OF YEARSA PATCHWORK PLANETBACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPSTHE AMATEUR MARRIAGE
A Ballantine BookPublished by The Random House Publishing GroupCopyright © 1982 by Anne Tyler Modarressi
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Ballantine Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
www.ballantinebooks.com
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-96729
eISBN: 978-0-307-78452-0
This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
v3.1
Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
1Something You Should Know
2Teaching the Cat to Yawn
3Destroyed by Love
4Heart Rumors
5The Country Cook
6Beaches on the Moon
7Dr. Tull is Not a Toy
8This Really Happened
9Apple Apple
10Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
A Reader’s Guide
About the Author
1 Something You Should Know
While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her. It twitched her lips and rustled her breath, and she felt her son lean forward from where he kept watch by her bed. “Get …” she told him. “You should have got …”
You should have got an extra mother, was what she meant to say, the way we started extra children after the first child fell so ill. Cody, that was; the older boy. Not Ezra here beside her bed but Cody the troublemaker—a difficult baby, born late in her life. They had decided on no more. Then he developed croup. This was in 1931, when croup was something serious. She’d been frantic. Over his crib she had draped a flannel sheet, and she set out skillets, saucepans, buckets full of water that she’d heated on the stove. She lifted the flannel sheet to catch the steam. The baby’s breathing was choked and rough, lik ............

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