Southern Quarterly, April 1st, 2003
RECOGNIZED FOR WRITING Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, Anne Tyler has also published an impressive number of short stories that have received little critical attention. In some of these stories, Tyler works with familiar themes like the family, the home, and the emotional connections between family members, but in "Average Waves in Unprotected Waters," Tyler examines the intersecting oppressions faced by Bet Blevins, a working-class white woman who, through no fault of her own, also happens to be a single mother. Instead of focusing on how Bet's life can somehow become more bearable through the...
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