{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end-9780008804817","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cp\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\/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. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, if you got the beginning wrong? 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, Beginning Middle End 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":"Valeria Luiselli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48881244373243,"sku":"9780008804817","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/8176\/3067\/files\/9780008804817.webp?v=1779418728","url":"https:\/\/aureliabooks.co.nz\/products\/beginning-middle-end-9780008804817","provider":"Aurelia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}