Back When we were Grownups by Anne Tyler
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Rebecca Davitch is a 53-year-old widow, mother, step-mother and grandmother. She seems to be a very happy person, satisfied with her life as it is, when she suddenly she is caught offguard by the feeling that she has become someone she was never meant to be. Amid many boisterous family gatherings, marriages, birthday celebrations and births, Rebecca attempts to retrieve the woman, life and goals she felt she had before she married Joe Davitch, divorced father of three little girls. Thinking that the she needs to find that quiet, intelligent girl who dropped out of college to marry a man she had known only 3 months, she even attempts to revive a long-dead relationship with her old boyfriend. This is a touching story of a woman’s search for herself and the ensuing realization that she had much to be grateful for and happy about.