Breathing Lessons Plot Summary

Breathing Lessons Overview

Breathing Lessons is Tyler's eleventh book.

Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in fiction as well as Time magazine's Book of the Year, it is the story of the "run-of-the-mill marriage" of Ira and Maggie Moran. The story explores the joys and tribulations of marriage as Maggie and Ira travel from Baltimore to a funeral in Pennsylvania and home again in one day.