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Ladder of Years (1995)

by Anne Tyler

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3,063604,405 (3.69)1 / 155
A runaway wife leaves one domestic situation, only to fall into another. She is Delia Grinstead, 40, of Baltimore, the wife of a physician and mother of three. One day she decides she's had enough of being invisible, moves to another town and gets herself a job--caring for a boy whose mother has abandoned the family. By the author of Saint Maybe.… (more)
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This novel made me emphathize with a woman who left her children. Impossible! ( )
  GigiB50 | Dec 18, 2023 |
This was so good, I'm fairly certain I'll read it again. Classic Anne Tyler. ( )
  MickeyMole | Oct 2, 2023 |
This story is warm, comfortable and quietly questioning as a good novel often is. A woman wonders almost by accident who she is, what her family means and how she fits in with them. Through her travels over an eighteen month period, she quietly finds answers to questions she didn’t know she had.

Well written, quiet and insightful, this is a well crafted tale, this begs to be transformed into a script for the stage. ( )
  kent23124 | May 19, 2023 |
Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Was thinking zero recall, but then recalled the woman leaving her husband and children (permanently) from the beach while on vacation. Based in MD." ( )
  MGADMJK | Sep 9, 2022 |
I read this book years ago, but still think about it occasionally. That's how I know it had a lot to say. ( )
  LuanneCastle | Mar 5, 2022 |
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Delaware State Police announced early today that Cordelia F. Grinstead, wife of a Roland Park physician, has been reported missing while on holiday with her family in Bethany Beach.
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He straightened, capping his pen ... His signature was large and sweeping, smeared on the curves. He used one of those expensive German pens that leaked.
Vanessa was filling out labels with an old-fashioned steel-nibbed pen.
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A runaway wife leaves one domestic situation, only to fall into another. She is Delia Grinstead, 40, of Baltimore, the wife of a physician and mother of three. One day she decides she's had enough of being invisible, moves to another town and gets herself a job--caring for a boy whose mother has abandoned the family. By the author of Saint Maybe.

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“BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION.” The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To the best of her family’s knowledge, she has disappeared without a trace.
But Delia didn’t disappear. She ran.
Exhausted with her routine and everyone else’s plans for her, Delia needed an out, a chance to make a new life for herself and to become a different person. The new Delia can let go of all the hurt and resentment that left her stuck in her past. As she eagerly sheds the pieces of herself she no longer needs, Delia discovers feelings of passion and wonder she’d long since forgotten. The thrill of walking away from it all leads to a newfound sense of self and the feeling that she is, finally, the star of her own life story.
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