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A mother and her daughter spend a stormy summer in Sicily after the mother’s marriage collapses, near the ruins where her grandmother once worked on an archaeological dig, while back home her mother is losing her memory. Along the way the daughter starts taking over the story, and the trip becomes a search for origins: family, mythical, even geological. Four generations of women in one road novel is a premise we can’t resist. From the author of Lost Children Archive, this Fiction finalist is described as warm and funny, and it sounds like one to share with a parent or a kid.
Publisher’s description at Penguin Random House. Finalist status from the National Book Foundation.
From the author of Lost Children Archive and Tell Me How It Ends, and a 2026 National Book Award finalist for Fiction. Winners are announced November 18.
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