From the internationally bestselling author of American Dirt, comes a classic novel of a family in crisis
''A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest''
JOHN BOYNE, author of The Heart''s Invisible Furies
''I loved this book... a big, sweeping story of family and identity, and what it means to belong''
EDEL COFFEY, author of Breaking Point and In Her Place
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''Why hadn''t she said to her daughter I love you beyond reason and none of this matters at all and every day that you breathe is a gift?''
Rafaela remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth and Benny, to the American Midwest, and losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip.
Her daughter, in New York with a family of her own, wishes she could forget her mud
