If Morning Ever Comes: A Novel

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 5, 2011 - Fiction - 272 pages
From the beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a timeless portrait of a young man's homecoming, and his ensuing journey through youth, identity, family, and love. Here is the debut novel that set Tyler on the path to becoming an American classic.

Ben Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love....
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
19
Section 3
32
Section 4
47
Section 5
62
Section 6
78
Section 7
96
Section 8
116
Section 11
145
Section 12
161
Section 13
178
Section 14
196
Section 15
214
Section 16
230
Section 17
249
Section 18
255

Section 9
124
Section 10
140

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About the author (2011)

ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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