Searching for Caleb

From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and The Accidental Tourist Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, Searching for Caleb is a moving quest for a family s deepest roots and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion.

Family sagas have such an endless appeal that whenever one meets a really good one, like Anne Tyler s Searching for Caleb, one wonders why anybody bothers to write a different form of novel Auberon Waugh

Anne Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredictability of seemingly everyday lives Sunday Telegraph