{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end-trade-paperback","title":"Beginning Middle End (Trade Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER NOW! The estimated release date is 27 October\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 2026. Please note your complete order will only ship once the Pre-Order item becomes available.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?\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 through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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 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 radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms, Beginning Middle End offers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘What sets Valeria Luiselli’s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness’\u003c\/strong\u003e COLM TÓIBÍN, author of Long Island\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valeria Luiselli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47636206649522,"sku":"9780008804817","price":370.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9780008804817.jpg?v=1783601681","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/beginning-middle-end-trade-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}