6/7/2023 0 Comments The french braid book review![]() ![]() ![]() Spanning 60 years and multiple generations, it offers a diffuse, affectionate portrait of the Garretts, a loving but aloof family in which nearly everything is left unsaid. It encapsulates their ups and downs from the 1950s right up to the post pandemic era. The book by Anne Taylor is a journey of “Garretts”-Robert Garret and Mercy Garret. It’s a fast-track read, sober in its narrative but not very captivating though. The book in my hand, “The French Braid” had a lot to tell about life, but somewhere the author has not been able to bind a story with eloquence. Is it a deception that we linger on to or a reality that we fail to recognize? The truth is, drifting never fails to surprise us. What carries them to another realm is a perfidy of life which we are not oblivious to loss of loved one, geographical permutations, a malignant trauma or an irony that fails the belief to love someone dearly. A family is a united by love, compassion and warmth but sometimes for reasons unknown, the union breaks, its entire edifice falls apart and people drift away. ![]()
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