Everything you need to understand or teach A Slipping-down Life by Anne Tyler.
A Slipping-Down Life, the third book by the critically acclaimed novelist Ann Tyler, was published in 1970. Written in a clean and unassuming style, it describes the life of Evie Decker, an overweight and lonely teenager, who becomes obsessed with a nineteen-year-old rock musician named Bertram "Drumstrings" Casey. Evie is not a big fan of music but she does listen to the radio, to help fill in the empty hours at the...