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I suspect this was an easy to come by galley, perhaps to whet our appetite for Tyler’s new book, Clock Dance to be published in July. I’ve already read the book, so for me the lure was simply that this was written by Anne Tyler. I’m a fan and have been for a long time. My attraction to her characters and novels is that they are about ordinary people, sometimes quirky, living ordinary lives as most of us do, while managing the things that fate throws in our way. This was a little different because Susanna who wants us to believe at the outset the same of her, is different than most of us. She is a healer, actually a sometimes healer. “The first thing I tell people is, I’m just an ordinary woman.�� This is a short story, only 24 pages long, so I won’t say more, except that any fan of Anne Tyler will be interested in knowing if Susanna is right.

I received a copy of this story from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group through NetGalley.