Description
In this tender, searching road novel, a recently divorced mother and her teenage daughter arrive in Sicily, where a temporary retreat becomes an unexpected journey into family history, literary inheritance, and the island’s layered past. As they travel among ancient ruins, migrants, elders, and elemental landscapes, they investigate the traces left by the mother’s grandmother and confront the shifting boundaries between memory, myth, and geology. Their days of reading, cooking, arguing, and reconciliation become a meditation on how families rebuild themselves across generations—and on whether every beginning carries the shape of an ending. With its fluid structure and richly imaginative prose, the novel explores time, storytelling, motherhood, and the elusive process of finding one’s place in the world.
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paperback
Knopf
Published Jul 28, 2026
368 pages
ISBN: 9798217208319
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First Published
2026
Language
eng
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