And the July book winner is...

Back when we were grownups, by Anne Tyler

Amazon Reveiw... The first sentence of Anne Tyler's 15th novel sounds like something out of a fairy tale: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person." Alas, this discovery has less to do with magic than with a late-middle-age crisis, which is visited upon Rebecca Davitch in the opening pages of Back When We Were Grownups. At 53, this perpetually agreeable widow is "wide and soft and dimpled, with two short wings of dry, fair hair flaring almost horizontally from a center part." Given her role as the matriarch of a large family--and the proprietress of a party-and-catering concern, the Open Arms--Rebecca is both personally and professionally inclined toward jollity. But at an engagement bash for one of her multiple stepdaughters, she finds herself questioning everything about her life: "How on earth did I get like this? How? How did I ever become this person who's not really me?"

J'aime Lire Online Book Chat... Mark your calendars to begin discussing this book on Thursday, July 26.

*** Cat - Would you mind leading the discussion, since this book was one of your selection? Thanks for the pick and I am looking forward to reading. I've never read an Anne Tyler book, so this is a first for me.