Valeria Luiselli
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Valeria Luiselli, award-winning author of the modern classics Lost Children Archive and Tell Me How It Ends, shares her newest novel, Beginning Middle End, the tale of a mother and a daughter starting over, searching for a new story. This story begins when a mother and her daughter take off on a trip through Sicily. The narrator’s marriage has collapsed, her mother is losing her memory, and her daughter is on the threshold of adolescence, starting to ask difficult questions and form complex memories. Their journey soon becomes a quest for origins, not just to the familial past across continents, languages, and generations, but also farther back, to a mythical and even geological past. Beginning Middle End evolves into a road novel of exquisite tenderness, spanning four generations of women. In their travels through Sicily, mother and daughter cross paths with the island’s migrants, storekeepers, and elders, and also its volcanoes, its winds, and its waters. Weaving myths, ancient phil
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- Valeria LuiselliAuthor
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