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'''''Celestial Navigation''''' is a 1974 novel by [[Anne Tyler]]. This is her 17th novel.
'''''Celestial Navigation''''' is a 1974 novel by [[Anne Tyler]]. This was her 5th novel.


==Plot summary==
==Plot summary==

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Celestial Navigation
First edition cover, New York, 1974
AuthorAnne Tyler
Original titleCelestial Navigation
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherKnopf
Publication date
1974
Publication placeUnited States
Published in English
February 1974
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages276
ISBN0701120940
OCLC737160
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.T979 Ce3 PS3570.Y45 (76361214)[1]
Preceded byThe Clock Winder 
Followed bySearching for Caleb 

Celestial Navigation is a 1974 novel by Anne Tyler. This was her 5th novel.

Plot summary

This story is set in the 1960s in a Baltimore rowhouse/boarding house, owned by Mrs. Pauling, the mother of an artistic 38-year-old man, Jeremy Pauling, who never left home. The story begins with the death of Jeremy's mother and the funeral arrangements that needed to be handled by his two out-of-town sisters, Amanda and Laura. Amanda is unsympathetic to her brother's inability to come out of his shell. But a new boarder, Mary Tell and her six year old, Darcy, begin to inspire Jeremy in a new way.

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