In 1963, Tyler married Taghi Mohammed Modarressi, an Iranian-born child psychologist and novelist. Shortly after, Tyler moved to Montreal, where her husband was completing his residency while she published her first novels, If Morning Ever

Tyler’s love and deep interest in her family is often reflected in the themes of her works. In most of Tyler’s novels, the main characters struggle and, at the same time, depend on their families. The protagonist often has to deal with the internal struggle of wanting to escape and re-create their family at the same time. The ordinariness of day-to-day life that families encounter is most often the subject matter of Tyler’s novels; many critics ascribe her popularity with reading audiences with the fact that her characters are relatable and ordinary but not simplistic (Concise Dictionary…). The key feature that Tyler focuses in on the most in her novels is the tension that develops between the members of the family. In her 1982 novel, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, the tension of the Tull family is seen from the vantage point of each family member, each with their own perspective on the situation at hand. Perhaps one of Tyler’s greatest family novels is If Morning Ever Comes, a story about a home that is “cluttered with people and objects and becoming the place characters often leave and always miss” (DISCovering Authors). Although a few of the characters feel trapped in their current surroundings, they ar

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