{"product_id":"back-when-we-were-grownups-9780345446862","title":"Back When We Were Grownups","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e- \"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person.\" The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"You'll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last.\" --\u003ci\u003ePEOPLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation--something she married into after Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was his family business. What caught Joe's fancy was that she seemed to be having such a \u003ci\u003ewonderful\u003c\/i\u003e time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon this large-spirited divorcé with three little girls swept Beck into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family--plus a child of their own--and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family party, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. Is she an impostor in her own life? Is it indeed her own life? How she answers--how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been--is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345446862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 5.54w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/05\/2002 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anne Tyler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924842614965,"sku":"9780345446862","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_516b3033-4aea-47a2-801e-911391a8b0fa.jpg?v=1687839554","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/back-when-we-were-grownups-9780345446862","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}