{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"row subcategory-data mt-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12 col-xl-9\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eValeria Luiselli\u003c\/span\u003e | Paperback | July 2026\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12 col-xl-9\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow do you begin again,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe mother wonders,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eif you got the beginning wrong\u003c\/em\u003e? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA road novel, a mother-daughter story, a radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeginning Middle End\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘What sets Valeria Luiselli’s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eCOLM TÓIBÍN, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLong Island\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful, funny and tender … I loved it’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEMMA HEALY, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSweat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An instant classic, Luiselli is at her bravest and most sincere’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSAMANTA SCHWEBLIN, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘I loved spending time with the women in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeginning Middle End\u003c\/em\u003e, who soon began to feel like friends’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eOCTAVIA BRIGHT, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Ragged Grace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Luminous, reverberating and original – a novel to reckon with and to marvel at’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ePAUL FARLEY, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen It Rained for a Million Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e-------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row subcategory-data mt-4 mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col pb-0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pb-0 mb-0 subcategory-data--label\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Info\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. She is the author of the novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won the 2016 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction; the essay collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSidewalks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTell Me How It Ends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an essay about the situation faced by children arriving at the US-Mexico border without papers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLost Children Archive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her first novel written in English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"booxies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51034472743079,"sku":null,"price":41.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0507\/1523\/0375\/files\/BeginningMiddleEnd.webp?v=1785285695","url":"https:\/\/booxies.com\/en-nz\/products\/beginning-middle-end","provider":"booxies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}