FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A GIRL RETURNED, COMES A MOVING NEW NOVEL ABOUT SISTERHOOD, THE PAST AND ITS INDELIBLE MARKS
?* NATALIE PORTMAN''S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR JULY 2022*
*A Strega Prize 2021 finalist *
It-s the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister''s door. Who is she running from? What uncomfortable truth will she deliver? Like a whirlwind, Adriana breaks into her sister-s life bringing chaos and cataclysmic revelations.
Years later, the narrator gets an unexpected, urgent summons back to Pescara. She embarks on a long journey through the night, and through the folds and twists of her memory, from her and her sister-s youth, their loves and losses, their secrets and regrets. Back in Borgo Sud, the town-s fishermen-s quarter, in that impenetrable yet welcoming microcosm, she will discover what really happened, and perhaps mak
