{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, love 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe 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?A 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: UK, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780008804817\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Valeria Luiselli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58094500413771,"sku":null,"price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780008804817.jpg?v=1786378312","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/beginning-middle-end","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}