Now that I have read all the Elizabeth Strout novels I could lay my hands on, I am really glad to have a good number of books by Anne Tyler still stretching out before me. There is a real art to writing about daily family life, even though it is something we have all experienced. An author with an eye for tiny details can bring a home to life and Anne Tyler has that skill in spades. Anyone who has been married for any length of time must have had days when they just pondered the possibility of just walking away one day without looking back, and this book is a story a wife and mother who did just that. Delia Grinstead had been married to Sam since she left high school, and they produced three children who were now all reaching the age when they were preparing to fly the nest and make lives of their own. Delia's father was a family doctor when he employed Sam to come and work with him as a second doctor in his practice, and it wasn't long before Sam began to consider mar...