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Beginning Middle End

By (author) Valeria Luiselli

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â€˜What sets Valeria Luiselliâ€™s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividnessâ€™ COLM TÃ“IBÃN â€˜Inventive, brilliant, playful â€¦ dazzles on every pageâ€™ KATIE KITAMURA From the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous, tender and expansive new novel about family, memory and time. 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 â€“ not just to the familial past across continents, languages and generations, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past. 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 childrenâ€™s imaginations? How do we situate ourselves deeply in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a familyâ€™s memories made and what happens when they disappear? 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. â€˜A profound meditation on parenthood â€¦ I loved it, beginning middle and endâ€™ TOMMY ORANGE, author of Wandering Stars â€˜An instant classic, Valeria Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincereâ€™ SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of Fever Dream â€˜Luminous, reverberating, and original â€“ a novel to reckon with and to marvel atâ€™ PAUL FARLEY, author of When It Rained for a Million Years