By Anne Tyler
Published in 2001
“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
“She was fifty-three years old by then–a grandmother. Wide and soft and dimpled, with two short wings of dry, fair hair flaring almost horizontally from a center part. Laugh lines at the corners of her eyes. A loose and colorful style of dress edging dangerously close to Bag Lady.”
Suggested by Cynthia M. Johnston,Oregon, Ill.
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