'A summer book for life' ALI SMITH'Dazzles on every page'KATIE KITAMURA'I was utterly captivated' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVEFrom the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, time and starting over.All I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?A 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. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, if you got the beginning wrong? 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.With 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...

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