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A summer book for life ALI SMITH Dazzles on every page KATIE KITAMURA I was utterly captivated KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVEFrom the award winning author of Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli comes a wondrous new novel about family time 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 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 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