A Slipping-Down Life (by Anne Tyler)

On the whole I’ve been enjoying re-reading my collection of novels by the American novelist Anne Tyler. She has a quirky style, with many wry observations that sometimes make me smile. Her characters tend to be larger than life, many of them caricatured, but then some of the situations are so strange that I don’t take them too seriously.
I just finished ‘A Slipping-Down Life’, which I read in 2006. I had entirely forgotten what it was about, but saw that on GoodReads and LibraryThing I had giv...