{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cp\u003e'What sets Valeria Luiselli's new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness' COLM TÓIBÍN\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Inventive, brilliant, playful ... dazzles on every page' KATIE KITAMURA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous, tender and expansive new novel about family, memory and time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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 - not just to the familial past across continents, languages and generations, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith 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's imaginations? How do we situate ourselves deeply in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a family's memories made and what happens when they disappear?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A profound meditation on parenthood ... I loved it, beginning middle and end' TOMMY ORANGE, author of Wandering Stars\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'An instant classic, Valeria Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere' SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of Fever Dream\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Beginning Middle End","offer_id":46252817121477,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-00-880481-7.jpg?v=1779315017","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/beginning-middle-end","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}