{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end-valeria-luiselli-9780008804817","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Mind-expanding and heart-expanding; A summer book for life' ALI SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Dazzles on every page' KATIE KITAMURA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An astonishing book' DOIREANN NI GHRIOFA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I was utterly captivated' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, love and starting over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e All I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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 through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eA road novel, a mother-daughter story, a radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms, Beginning Middle End offers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA hottest book of the summer as seen in New York Times, Guardian, Elle, AnOther, New Yorker, Glossary, Town \u0026amp; Country, NPR and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'What sets Valeria Luiselli's new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness' COLM TOIBIN, author of Long Island\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Bewitching ... an affecting novel for anyone ... seeking their own new beginning' FINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A beautiful, maybe perfect novel' TOMMY ORANGE, author of Wandering Stars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, funny and tender ... I loved it' EMMA HEALY, author of Sweat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Among the best books to read on holiday ... beautiful and lyrically perfect' THE GLOSSARY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Luiselli is one of the country's most gifted novelists' LOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Rich, lyrical and moving' ANOTHER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A new literary form altogether' MONOCLE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An instant classic, Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere' SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of Fever Dream\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I loved spending time with the women in Beginning Middle End, who soon began to feel like friends' OCTAVIA BRIGHT, author of This Ragged Grace\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valeria Luiselli","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50223276687603,"sku":"9780008804817","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780008804817.jpg?v=1786088945","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/beginning-middle-end-valeria-luiselli-9780008804817","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}