A review by geriatricgretch
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

5.0

This is one of my favorite books of all time. I first read it when I was way too young to understand most of what was going on, but the pull of this idea that you could just walk away from your life and start a new one was instantly alluring. I haven't reread it since late high school or early college (I only recently found a copy at a thrift store) and while this book is obviously much more complicated than I remember, I still find myself clinging to that initial interpretation. It's not exactly wrong, but there is more to it. I think we all like the idea of being able to start over again though, as impossible as that may be in real life.