Breathing Lessons
Author: Anne Tyler
Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children. Her eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people’s lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested one hot summer day.Maggie and Ira drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of the husband of….Read More
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