\u2018Inventive, brilliant, playful, and transporting’ \u2015 by Katie Kitamura, author of Audition<\/p>\n
A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage. Their journey begins in Sicily during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, if you got the beginning wrong? The trip soon becomes a quest for origins \u2013 not just to the familial past across continents, languages and generations, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.<\/p>\n
With her daughter coming into her own and her mother showing signs of dementia, the narrator finds herself confronting the primary questions of life: How do stories shape our children\u2019s imaginations? How do we situate ourselves deeply in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a family\u2019s memories made and what happens when they disappear?<\/p>\n
A road novel, a mother-daughter story, a mystery, Beginning Middle End is a shapeshifting novel that offers an exhilarating testament to the power and instability of the stories we hold most dear.
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa and India. She is an acclaimed award-winning author and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College Her previous novel, Lost Children Archive, was an international critical and commercial success. It was a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2019, won the Rathbone Folio Prize 2020, the Dublin Award 2021, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was nominated for the Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction, and the Booker Prize 2019 among others. In 2019 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for \u201cchallenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others.\u201d Her work is published in more than thirty languages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018Inventive, brilliant, playful, and transporting’ \u2015 by Katie Kitamura, author of Audition A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage. Their journey begins in Sicily during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1972961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n