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Searching For Caleb

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Amy Finegan
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The audio edition of Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler.

Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, Searching for Caleb is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots - and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion.

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Critic reviews

Family sagas have such an endless appeal that whenever one meets a really good one, like Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb, one wonders why anyone bothers to write a different form of novel (Auberon Waugh)
Anne Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredicability of seemingly everyday lives
Strange and enchanting
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I think this is my favourite book from Anne Tyler, though I still have many left to read.

Anne Tyler at her best

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Such a melancholic story that made me ache for some of the characters. I first read this book in the early 90s when I discovered Ann Tyler & went on to read every book of hers & long for the next. Now I'm listening to them on Audible, and this book affected me emotionally far more than 30 plus years ago. I found the voices of some of the relatives (Justin's aunts in particular) jarring at times, but overall was sorry to reach the end of the story. I wanted to know what happened next! but isn't that often the way.... I love Ann Tyler and all her stories. Now onto the next!

worthy of a reread

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