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Breathing Lessons

by Anne Tyler · 1988

Literary Fiction · ranked #160 in category

Maggie and Ira Moran drive to a friend's funeral and back across a single day, the journey surfacing forty years of marriage, compromise and what each has given up and kept. Tyler's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a meditation on the ordinary marriage as the site of everything — love, resentment, disappointment and the kind of durable intimacy that asks no great questions.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1988 · 1980s
Author
Anne Tyler
Standing
Essential Read

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