Star employee of Baltimore's Rent-a-Back, Inc., Barnaby Gaitlan is the protagonist of Tyler's most recent novel, A Patchwork Planet (1998). At the age of thirty, Barnaby is divorced and still not finished with college or free of a debt to his parents. He helps senior citizens sort out their attics and basements while they fend off attempts to put them in nursing homes.
In Mary Pipher's study, Another Country; Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders (1999), she Turns her attention to the psychological trauma and emotional difficulty surrounding what has become the last phase of life in America: the nursing home.
Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) relates the family history of the Tull family. Pearl is abandoned by her traveling salesman husband and has to raise three.....
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