{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end-9780008804817","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Mind-expanding and heart-expanding; A summer book for life’\u003c\/strong\u003e ALI SMITH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Dazzles on every page’ \u003c\/strong\u003eKATIE KITAMURA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An astonishing book’\u003c\/strong\u003e DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I was utterly captivated’\u003c\/strong\u003e KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eLost Children Archive,\u003c\/em\u003e Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, love and starting over.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003cem\u003eHow do you begin again,\u003c\/em\u003e the mother wonders, \u003cem\u003eif you got the beginning wrong\u003c\/em\u003e? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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 in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a family's memories made and what happens when they disappear?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA road novel, a mother-daughter story, a radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms, \u003cem\u003eBeginning Middle End\u003c\/em\u003e offers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hottest book of the summer as seen in \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnOther\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlossary\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e and more.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘What sets Valeria Luiselli’s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness’ \u003c\/strong\u003eCOLM TÓIBÍN, author of \u003cem\u003eLong Island\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Bewitching … an affecting novel for anyone … seeking their own new beginning’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A beautiful, maybe perfect novel’ \u003c\/strong\u003eTOMMY ORANGE, author of \u003cem\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful, funny and tender … I loved it’\u003c\/strong\u003e EMMA HEALY, author of \u003cem\u003eSweat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Among the best books to read on holiday … beautiful and lyrically perfect’\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTHE\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eGLOSSARY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Luiselli is one of the country's most gifted novelists’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Rich, lyrical and moving’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eANOTHER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A new literary form altogether’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMONOCLE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An instant classic, Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere’\u003c\/strong\u003e SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of \u003cem\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I loved spending time with the women in \u003cem\u003eBeginning Middle End\u003c\/em\u003e, who soon began to feel like friends’ \u003c\/strong\u003eOCTAVIA BRIGHT, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Ragged Grace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780008804817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 28 Jul 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Scholastic US\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 21.6(H)x13.5(L)x2.8(W)360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 360\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. She is the author of the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, which won the 2016 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction; the essay collection Sidewalks; and Tell Me How It Ends, an essay about the situation faced by children arriving at the US-Mexico border without papers. 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