by Anne Tyler · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466340168
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In 'When We Were Grownups', Anne Tyler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, introduces us to Rebecca, a woman who, despite family expectations and the signs of the passage of time, refuses to accept a destiny that she does not feel is her own. Tired of reinventing traditional cuisine and taking care of children who do not see her as a grandmother, Rebecca decides to take control of her life. She resumes the studies she had abandoned when she got married, enrolls in a gym, buys silk lingerie, and dares to call a number she thought she had forgotten. This novel explores the value of memories and the courage needed to rewrite one's own story, inviting us to reflect on authenticity and the pursuit of personal happiness.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
