{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Inventive, brilliant, playful … dazzles on every page’ \u003c\/strong\u003eKATIE KITAMURA\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An instant classic, Valeria Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere’\u003c\/strong\u003e SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eLost Children Archive,\u003c\/em\u003e Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous, tender and expansive new novel about family, memory and time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \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 to the familial past across continents, languages and generations, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eWith 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 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\n          \u003cp\u003eA road novel, a mother-daughter story, a mystery, \u003cem\u003eBeginning Middle End\u003c\/em\u003e is a shapeshifting novel that offers an exhilarating testament to the power and instability of the stories we hold most dear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56672956481880,"sku":"9780008804800","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780008804800.jpg?v=1771444837","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/beginning-middle-end","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}