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Beginning middle end : a novel / Valeria Luiselli.

Van Pelt Library PS3612.U378 B44 2026
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Luiselli, Valeria, 1983- Author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters.
Families--Fiction.
Families.
Travel--Fiction.
Travel.
Memory--Fiction.
Memory.
Italy--Fiction.
Italy.
Road--Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction
Novels
Road fiction
Fiction.
Road fiction.
Novels.
Physical Description:
vii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First hardcover edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026.
Summary:
This story begins when a mother and her daughter take off on a trip. It is a summer of rapidly changing winds, volcanic rumbles, and sudden tempests. They've landed in Sicily, near the ancient ruins where the mother's grandmother worked long ago on an archaeological dig. 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. How do you begin again? the narrator wonders, pondering her family line. How do you begin again if you got the beginning wrong? While the mother tries to figure out how to reconstruct their lives as a duo, her daughter takes the reins of the story, and 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. Warm, funny, and poetic, this novel is an ode to imagination and possibility in dark times.
Contents:
The first part (Levante)
The other part (Ponente)
The last part (Scirocco)
Proteus: prima materia (mistral).
Notes:
"From the beloved award-winning author of culture-changing hits, Lost Children Archive and Tell Me How it Ends, comes her most powerful and page-turning novel yet: the tale of a mother and daughter driving across Italy and starting over"-- Provided by publisher.
Other Format:
Online version Luiselli, Valeria, 1983- Beginning middle end
ISBN:
9798217208319
OCLC:
1548244538

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