Anne Tyler publishes her 24th novel and discusses the pandemic, her writing process, and unraveling family ties

Row described Tyler as “a writer (like many other white writers of her generation and era) who typifies what I call a posture of racial silence: not talking about race, and likely, for the most part, wishing that conversations about race didn’t have to happen. … Baltimore has such an extreme, obvious, seemingly unavoidable history of racial discrimination and violence, and yet, from reading her novels, one would never know it.”