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“French Braid ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family’s orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts’ influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.

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Serena and James, a college-age couple, visit James’s parents for the weekend. However, weekend plans devolve to a single Sunday because Serena does not want to sleep with James in his childhood bedroom on Saturday night. To her, doing so is akin to having sex in public, a violation of her modesty. James, the flexible character, digs in while Serena, the rigid character, bends over backward to make the situation work. Through the process, Serena comes to realize that friendly, open, handsome James is no real catch. And indeed, when the novel drops back in time to 1959, it is the last we see of him. At least this once, the contemporary character does not repeat the mistakes of her forbearers, of her grandmother, Mercy, in particular, who when she married pretty much accepted a pig in a poke. Furthermore, the chapter introduces the troubling notion of forgiveness and its opposite – not only grudge, which involves our will, but indelible impression, the kinks in the French braid – central to the characters’ inability to understand one another or to change some aspects of their behavior.