If you’re a lover of exciting plots with plenty of action, this is not the book for you. And that, essentially, is what the novel is about: the way small events within a family have repercussions through the generations.
An ageing couple, David and Greta, are getting ready for bed, and an image has come to David’s mind of the way his sister Emily used to braid her hair: ‘They would start with two skeins of hair up near her temples, very skinny and tight, and then join in with two thicker braids lower down….and then when she undid them, her hair would still be in ripples…’. Here, not many pages before the end of Anne Tyler’s latest novel, finally comes the explanation of the title.
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