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Duncan Peck loves randomness and keeps his family on a perpetual road. His wife, Justine, a fortune teller who struggles to recall her own past, propels the family into a journey of memory and destiny. Justine’s grandfather, Daniel, spends his life searching for the brother he lost in 1912, clutching only a fiddle as a clue. Together, the Peck family presses forward, rediscovering their roots and confronting the tensions between rebellion and acceptance that define their shared history.
First publish date: 1976
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Anne Tyler
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