CLOCK DANCE. By Anne Tyler. Knopf. 292 pages. $26.95. In her 22nd novel, "Clock Dance," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler returns to the subject of family. Throughout her prolific career, Tyler ...

This is mostly evident in Clock Dance’s ambling first half, which sets up subtle emotional payoffs at the expense of sufficient emotional investment. Tyler introduces Willa Drake, a quiet 11-year-old ...

Something very strange takes place early in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “Clock Dance.” A college student named Willa is flying home with her boyfriend when suddenly the man sitting on the other side of ...

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anne Tyler and two new fiction titles for teens. “Clock Dance” by Anne ...

Family is the way some of us understand the world. Not the self, not society – but the little malleable confederation that lies between the two. Anne Tyler, one of this country’s great artists, has ...

Author Anne Tyler has become known for creating offbeat characters who are instantly recognizable as residents of Charm City, the kind of people who pronounce “another” as a noun, as if a nother were ...

“Sometimes Willa felt she’d spent half her life apologizing for some man’s behavior,” and it seems most of Anne Tyler’s latest novel, “Clock Dance,” describes Willa doing just that. As always, like in ...

Something very strange takes place early in Anne Tyler's new novel, "Clock Dance." A college student named Willa is flying home with her boyfriend when suddenly the man sitting on the other side of ...