NATIONAL BESTELLER An exquisite The Boston Globe exploration of love and loss the struggles and limitations of family lifeand how we all must learn to live together and apartfrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Hours
The only problem with Michael Cunninghams prose is that it ruins you for mere mortals work He is the most elegant writer in AmericaThe Washington Post
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR NPR Harpers Bazaar Chicago Public Library Lit Hub Paste Kirkus Reviews
April 5 2019 In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack Dan and Isabel husband and wife are slowly drifting apartand both it seems are a little bit in love with Isabels younger brother Robbie Robbie wayward soul of the family who still lives in the attic loft Robbie who trying to get over his most recent boyfriend is living vicariously through a glamorous avatar online Robbie who now has to move out of the houseand whose departure threatens to break the family apart And then there is Nathan age ten taking his first uncertain steps toward independence while his sister Violet five does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents
April 5 2020 As the world goes into lockdown the cozy brownstone is starting to feel more like a prison Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open obsessed with keeping her family safe Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled sleights and frustrated sighs And dear Robbie is stranded in Iceland alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughtsand his secret Instagram lifefor company
April 5 2021 Emerging from the worst of the crisis the family reckons with a new very different realityand with what theyve learned what theyve lost and how they might go on
Cunningham is one of loves greatest witnessesLos Angeles Times
An absolutely stunning portrait of humanity a masterpieceLiterary Hub
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