Beginning Middle End
A Novel
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Beginning Middle End
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Valeria Luiselli, Maia Enrigue Luiselli
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Valeria Luiselli's novel opens the morning a mother and her teenage daughter arrive in Sicily, during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles, and sudden tempests. They’ve landed near the ancient ruins where the narrator’s grandmother worked long ago on an archaeological dig. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, pondering her family line, and what if the new beginning you're imagining is actually the end?
While the mother tries to figure out how to reconstruct their lives together—cooking meals side by side, reading out loud to each other, playing chess, bickering and making-up—her deeply intelligent, inquisitive daughter begins to take the reins of the story. She becomes increasingly curious about her great-grandmother’s past as a digger in archaeological sites and ancient tombs, and urges her mother to leave their enclosed day-to-day in search for answers about their family’s past and future.
Beginning Middle End evolves into a road novel of exquisite tenderness. In their drive through Sicily, mother and daughter cross paths with the island's migrants, storekeepers, and elders, but also its volcanoes, its winds and its waters. As their trip progresses, it becomes a journey to origins—not just to the familial past across continents, languages, and generations, but also further back to a mythical and geological past. With her own mother showing signs of dementia, the narrator confronts the primary questions of life: Where is home? Where do we dwell and seek safety? How are a family’s memories made and what happens when they disappear?
Warm, funny, and poetic, this novel is an ode to imagination and possibility in dark times.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF featuring visual elements from the book.
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Kritikerstimmen
“What sets Valeria Luiselli’s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness. Not just the characters, but the very rooms, the views from windows and the streets, are created with precision and lucidity. And then there are the feelings and the memories, the desires and the fears—these are etched with an astonishing sense of accuracy.”
—Colm Tóibín, author of The News from Dublin
“This book is a profound meditation on parenthood and the nature of change, the essence of story, of accounts and why we account, of what should be accounted for. And at its core is the
impossible attempt to return something lost and unknowable—something from the past that sees into the future. I loved it, beginning, middle, and end. It’s a beautiful, maybe perfect novel.”
—Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars
“Inventive, brilliant, playful, and transporting, Beginning Middle End dazzles on every page. It is a novel about love, self-invention, and lore, both historical and familial. Valeria Luiselli is extravagantly gifted—a writer possessed of both wisdom and an inquisitive, powerful heart.”
—Katie Kitamura, author of Audition
“This book is an animal from the future, with five hearts beating at once—daughter, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and reader. Each time one of the hearts beats faster, it touches all the others. An instant classic; Valeria Luiselli at her bravest and most sincere.”
—Samanta Schweblin, author of Good and Evil and Other Stories
“Arresting and layered. . . . Throughout, Luiselli makes reference to ancient Greek and Roman mythology, which adds depth to her profound portrait of the relationship between mother and daughter as they navigate the new shape of their family and try to understand each other. It’s a masterpiece.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
—Colm Tóibín, author of The News from Dublin
“This book is a profound meditation on parenthood and the nature of change, the essence of story, of accounts and why we account, of what should be accounted for. And at its core is the
impossible attempt to return something lost and unknowable—something from the past that sees into the future. I loved it, beginning, middle, and end. It’s a beautiful, maybe perfect novel.”
—Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars
“Inventive, brilliant, playful, and transporting, Beginning Middle End dazzles on every page. It is a novel about love, self-invention, and lore, both historical and familial. Valeria Luiselli is extravagantly gifted—a writer possessed of both wisdom and an inquisitive, powerful heart.”
—Katie Kitamura, author of Audition
“This book is an animal from the future, with five hearts beating at once—daughter, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and reader. Each time one of the hearts beats faster, it touches all the others. An instant classic; Valeria Luiselli at her bravest and most sincere.”
—Samanta Schweblin, author of Good and Evil and Other Stories
“Arresting and layered. . . . Throughout, Luiselli makes reference to ancient Greek and Roman mythology, which adds depth to her profound portrait of the relationship between mother and daughter as they navigate the new shape of their family and try to understand each other. It’s a masterpiece.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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