Ladder of Years

Anne Tyler takes us with 40-year-old Delia as she steps off the ladder of her family life and starts over from the bottom. How often we have felt like doing the same. The death of a father, increasingly cooler relations with her teenagers, long resentment of her doctor husband’s seemingly superior attitude, and (most of all) anger that he seems to have married her to inherit her father’s medical practice all combine to send her walking off the beach during a family vacation, into the van of a plumber returni