The 20th novel by the bestselling author of "The Accidental Tourist," "The Ladder of Years," "The Beginner's Goodbye," and many others. It tells the story of three generations of the Whitshank family and celebrates Tyler's 50th anniversary as a published author. "My favorite author and the best novelist in the world," Nick Hornby, Independent on Sunday. Now available in paperback.

Anne Tyler was born in 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include "Breathing Lessons," "The Accidental Tourist," "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," "The Ladder of Years," "Back When We Were Grownups," "A Patchwork Planet," "The Amateur Marriage," "Digging to America," "A Spool of Blue Thread," and "Vinegar Girl." In 1989, she won the Pulitzer Prize for "Breathing Lessons"; in 1994, she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as "the greatest living novelist writing in English"; in 2012, she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015, "A Spool of Blue Thread" was a Sunday Times bestseller and was nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.