French Braid Lynne Kelly writer and anthologist Michael Sims

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They escape from the social worker who wants to split them up to different foster homes by jumping off a moving train

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Agreeing that they are absolutely not interested in each other

French Braid Lynne Kelly writer and anthologist Michael Sims"A major new novel from the beloved Pulitzer Prize winning author a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a