The Amateur Marriage by Anne TylerMy new favorite novel by my longtime favorite author. This is the most beautifully written novel I have ever read in my whole life. Hands down. Anne Tyler is gifted in her ability to poetically tell the stories of ordinary people in normal lives, that don't necessarily have huge climactic moments that leave you on the edge of your seat.
To be honest, nothing monumental happened in this novel, but it was literally a story of two entire lives.
This story follows two people who met and married very young, lived their lives, raising kids, running the families grocery store, losing a kid as a runaway, reconnecting with the estranged daughters child but not the daughter, divorcing, one remarrying, and ultimately ones dying.
Pauline and Michael are my favorite on page couple, and they don't even get their happily ever after. The way Tyler wrote them is simply marvelous. I found myself laughing and crying all in one sentence.
This novel is pure poetry and I couldn't put it down.
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