![]() ![]() “I guess I was trying to have a happy imaginary life for myself, as I always do in my books, so therefore I couldn’t have made it dark,” she says.įrench Braid is the 24th novel from Tyler, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989 for Breathing Lessons and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Accidental Tourist in 1985, among a host of nominations for critically acclaimed work such as Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, A Spool of Blue Thread and Redhead By the Side of the Road. I think I’ll just use it.’” Still, like most Tyler novels, it is never gloomy. I don’t know when this is going to end, I don’t know how far to set it in the future not to have it. ![]() “I thought, you know, ‘I don’t think I can avoid it. Tyler didn’t plan on writing about COVID-19, but as the pandemic dragged on and on, it made a brief, poignant appearance in French Braid, a multigenerational family tale. She saw her two daughters and their families several times, but they did miss a Christmas together and a regular family beach vacation. “I was so isolated, of course, but there was a whole crowd of people that I was living with virtually on the page, and so that helped a lot,” the 80-year-old American author says in an interview from her home in Baltimore. Anne Tyler says writing her latest novel, French Braid, helped to keep her sane during the pandemic. ![]()
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