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‘Dazzles on every page’ KATIE KITAMURA ‘I was utterly captivated’ KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE ‘A beautiful, maybe perfect, novel’ TOMMY ORANGE From the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, time and starting over. All I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives? 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 - not just through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past. With 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