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Title	:	Searching for Caleb
Author	:	Anne Tyler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 328 pages
Published	:	August 27th 1996 by Ballantine Books (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Novels

Searching for Caleb Paperback | Pages: 328 pages

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"Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel." THE BOSTON GLOBE Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one.... From the Paperback edition.

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Original Title:	Searching for Caleb
ISBN:	0449911748 (ISBN13: 9780449911747)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.9 From 5666 Users | 187 Reviews

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How often do you finish a book smiling with a warm feeling? Have you ever heard of a "bread and butter note"? A close-knit family with its own set of black sheep and eccentrics growing up in Baltimore in the early and mid 1950's. Although my rating says "amazing" that is a bit extreme but it deserves better than the next rating of "I really liked it". I loved the book. The people were real and fun with their own share of misery who managed to always overcome. My second Anne Tyler book but not my

Had a hard time connecting with any of the characters. Thought the main characters were weak and unsympathetic.

First finished book of 2019. I enjoyed reading about the singular Peck family and the themes of escaping/returning to family that played out for Justine, Duncan and Caleb. I wasnt satisfied with the ending but overall it was a better than average read.

Anne Tyler is an unfailingly good storyteller. How does she create such absorbing characters, who are so odd and unique, yet completely understandable to the reader? Duncan and Justine Peck are exactly these types of characters, complete eccentrics who win our hearts. Their story has levels of the day-to-day mundane - peanut-butter sandwiches, ill-fitting clothes, U-Hauls; but it is colored by the extremes of their lifestyles, a prim-and-proper dysfunctional extended family, gypsy-type traveling

I think this is the most beautifully written book I have ever read. I can open to any page and get drawn in. Bittersweet and inspiring.

I listened. Depressed. What a family, the Pecks. Stuck. Endless perseverations. The rules, the point of view, the judgments, and those who escape amount to not much of anything. Its not about societys meaning of amounting to something, but about purpose or meaning. We are in charge of making our own meaning, but what was the meaning of any of their lives. Even the patriarch claims that his career as a judge was based on precedence, and that he offered nothing new, and he had nothing to say

I'm on an Anne Tyler bender, re-reading several old favorites over the last few months. I want to be able to write like AT - so beautiful, so fine a portrait artist of the passive underachiever that turns up in all her stories. I don't think I've read Searching for Caleb before, but I think it may be my favorite AT yet. She obviously loves all her characters - they all do the most amusing things, even as they frustrate and annoy. It's all so perfectly human. I feel a little more forgiving of