Jump to content

Clock Dance

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the current revision of this page, as edited by Felida97 (talk | contribs) at 20:40, 30 April 2022 (Adding local short description: "2018 novel by Anne Tyler", overriding Wikidata description "Novel" (Shortdesc helper)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.

(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

First edition

Clock Dance (2018, Alfred A. Knopf) is the 22nd novel published by American author Anne Tyler.[1]

Plot Summary

[edit]

Eleven year old Willa Drake struggles to keep things together in the face of her mother's dramatic and disruptive behavior. As a young woman, she seeks stability in an early marriage, leaving college to build a steady and predictable environment for herself and her family. She must rebuild that life two decades later, after her husband's death. After another 20 years, at 61, Willa leads a comfortable, stylish life in Arizona with her semi-retired second husband, Peter. While she gets along fine in this environment, she finds it all confining and empty. Then one day, a stranger phones from Baltimore, seeking help for a young mother who has been seriously injured; the connection turns out to be that the woman is a former girlfriend of one of Willa's sons, the caller mistakenly assuming Willa is family. With few other commitments, Willa is drawn to fly east, husband in tow; they find Denise, her nine-year-old daughter Cheryl and a dog, Airplane, living in a small house in a rundown but lively Baltimore neighborhood. While she brings stability and support to Denise and Cheryl, Willa also reclaims her younger, freer and less deferential self.[2][3]

References

[edit]