Beginning Middle End

‘Inventive, brilliant, playful … dazzles on every page’ KATIE KITAMURA ‘An instant classic, Valeria Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere’ SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN 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 - 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 children’s imaginations?How do we situate ourselves deeply