![]() Even as they gather for what’s intended to be a blissful summer idyll, each has his or her own agenda: Robin, who runs a plumbing supply business, his wife, Mercy, and their three children, teenagers Alice and Lily and 7-year-old David, emerge as discrete atoms, uncomfortable in each other’s presence and desperate for autonomy and freedom. ![]() Section Two describes a Garrett family lake vacation in 1959 and establishes the fraught dynamic. Each section is told in the third person perspective of a different family member. From then on, “French Braid” proceeds chronologically forward, with leaps of as few as seven and as many as 12 years between the novel’s eight sections. ![]() When the novel’s first section from Serena’s perspective ends, we flash back, somewhat confusingly and abruptly, to the late 1950s in a section told from Alice’s perspective. ![]()
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