Anne Tyler

Earthly Possessions is a 1977 novel by Anne Tyler. This, Tyler's seventh novel, followed Celestial Navigation and Searching for Caleb and preceded her award-winning novels Morgan's Passing, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons.

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly …

Digging to America, published by Knopf in May 2006, is American author Anne Tyler's seventeenth novel.

"Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions."THE NEW YORK TIMES Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until …

Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children.

Back When We Were Grownups is a 2001 novel written by Anne Tyler in memory of her husband, who died in 1997.