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The Tin Can Tree

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The Tin Can Tree
1st edition cover, New York, 1965
AuthorAnne Tyler
LanguageEnglish
PublisherKnopf
Publication date
1965
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages273
ISBN978-0449911891
OCLC1378876
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.T979 Ti PS3570.Y45 (65018762)[1]

The Tin Can Tree is a 1965 novel by Anne Tyler.

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The Pike family, including ten-year-old Simon Pike, are trying to carry on after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose Pike. The brothers Ansel and James, neighbors of the Pike family, also pitch in to lend support to the Pikes. In the end, the Pikes learn that even after the traumatic death of a young soul, life still continues and they cannot mourn forever.

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