{"product_id":"9780008804800","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A summer book for life'\u003c\/strong\u003e ALI SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Dazzles on every page' \u003c\/strong\u003eKATIE KITAMURA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I was utterly captivated'\u003c\/strong\u003e KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eLost Children Archive,\u003c\/em\u003e Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, time and starting over.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cem\u003eHow do you begin again,\u003c\/em\u003e the mother wonders, \u003cem\u003eif you got the beginning wrong\u003c\/em\u003e? The trip soon becomes a quest for origins - not just through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith her daughter leaving childhood behind and her mother beginning to show signs of dementia, the narrator finds herself at a crossroads. She must now ask herself: 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 radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms, \u003cem\u003eBeginning Middle End\u003c\/em\u003e offers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'What sets Valeria Luiselli's new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness' \u003c\/strong\u003eCOLM TaIB+N, author of \u003cem\u003eLong Island\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Beautiful, funny and tender … I loved it'\u003c\/strong\u003e EMMA HEALY, author of \u003cem\u003eSweat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'An instant classic, Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere'\u003c\/strong\u003e SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of \u003cem\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I loved spending time with the women in \u003cem\u003eBeginning Middle End\u003c\/em\u003e, who soon began to feel like friends' \u003c\/strong\u003eOCTAVIA BRIGHT, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Ragged Grace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Luminous, reverberating and original - a novel to reckon with and to marvel at' \u003c\/strong\u003ePAUL FARLEY, author of \u003cem\u003eWhen It Rained for a Million Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"4th Estate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57382531989877,"sku":"9780008804800","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780008804800.jpg?v=1784890488","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780008804800","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}