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"Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions." (New York Times)

Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jeremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn - especially when he's falling in love....

©1974 Anne Tyler (P)2021 Recorded Books

Not my favourite Anne Tyler book

I usually miss the characters after I finish an Anne Tyler book and I didn’t this time.

Excellent

Having read all her books, this is probably my favorite. Not only is it the best story but the multiple narrators were a plus. I recommend this one!

Marginalized characters

I like Ann Tyler's command of the language, but I'm getting weary of her cuckoo characters

Why don’t I remember this book?

An early Tyler book where you see the beginnings of her choice of strange people. I did not enjoy this book. I never understood Jeremy and why Mary chose to be with him.

Just boring

Cannot even understand the theme. What is it about?
Who are the characters?
It just seems to go along and gets nowhere. The characters seem so depressed and depressing.