Ladder of Years is a 1995 novel by Anne Tyler. Plot summary This is a novel about a woman, Delia Grinstead, who finds her own self-identity and battles with familial relationships. As a spontaneous act of deep sadness and anger, she walks out on her...
It's just after 6, a blue August morning in western Maine, and I'm setting up the ladder on the north end of the house. It's a 32-foot aluminum extension job from Chick's Home Building Center, about as big as a person can handle alone,...
IF ANNE Tyler has a fault, it is a tendency to cuteness. Usually this is kept in check by a clear-sighted view of the pain that lies just over the horizon for her placid and decent Middle American characters. But in Ladder of Years...
