Celestial Navigation
Anne Tyler
288 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0449911802
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Language: English
Publish: 841129200000
20th CenturyAdultAmericanContemporaryFemale AuthorsFictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsThe United States Of America
Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jeremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn–especially when he’s falling in love….