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Bug Hollow
Michelle Huneven
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'I adored it' Claire Lombardo
'Feels like watching a master painter at work' Ann Napolitano
'I inhaled this book in a weekend' Leslie Jamison
Summer, California, 1970s.
Sally Samuelson is eight years old and the course of her family's life is about to change.
When her golden-boy brother Ellis, just graduated from high school, drives up the coast with his two best friends, he promises to be back in a week. But he does not return.
After Ellis's unexpected death, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis again - especially after Julia, Ellis's girlfriend, shows up pregnant on their doorstep.
And over the next four decades, the family fractures and rebuild, again and again - in a story that takes in love affairs, illnesses, late-in-life marriages and long-hidden secrets, and shows how brief intimate connections and heart-shattering losses can reverberate through generations.
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Huneven is such an elegant, watchful writer, and she has immense love and compassion for her characters. This is a novel that lays bare the tenderness of the world, exploring its breadth and smallness at once. I adored itA deeply satisfying novel, which provides constant surprise and delights. Reading the novel feels like watching a master painter at work: colour is laid down, forms emerge, and then at the end your breath is taken away, because it has all come togetherBug Hollow crackles with compassion and propulsion, offering the layered and propulsive pleasures of the long view - the evolving fortunes and dynamics of a family across decades - without ever surrendering the texture of their days or the pulse of their trippy hearts. I inhaled this book in a weekend, regretting only that it would ever end
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