Sign-In
Cart
Fonseca
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $20.00
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 059329887X
ISBN13: 9780593298879
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593298879
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Named a Top 10 Historical Fiction Book of 2025 by the New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Kirkus, and the Chicago Tribune Biblioracle
Named a Best Historical Fiction Book and Best Audio Book of the Year by Bookpage
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Kane's remarkable excavation of this interlude, including real letters from Valpy, drips with juicy conflict and detail. --Los Angeles Times A fable with heart and a searching investigation into what makes a marriage endure. --Boston Globe A marvel of sharp concision. --Wall Street Journal A daring book . . . fresh and beautiful. --Chicago Tribune The story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for Visiting Penelope Fitzgerald's charming husband is a struggling alcoholic, the London literary magazine they edit together is on the brink of bankruptcy, and she is pregnant with their third child. When she receives a mysterious letter dangling the possibility of an inheritance, Penelope sees a creative and practical lifeline that might save them. Based on Fitzgerald's momentous 1952 trip to northern Mexico before she was famous, Jessica Francis Kane's brilliantly imagined Fonseca is both a treasure hunt and a love story. Blending history, biography, and fiction, Kane has created an enthralling world while telling a story about how far someone might go in pursuit of a dream.
Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Kirkus, and the Chicago Tribune Biblioracle
Named a Best Historical Fiction Book and Best Audio Book of the Year by Bookpage
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Kane's remarkable excavation of this interlude, including real letters from Valpy, drips with juicy conflict and detail. --Los Angeles Times A fable with heart and a searching investigation into what makes a marriage endure. --Boston Globe A marvel of sharp concision. --Wall Street Journal A daring book . . . fresh and beautiful. --Chicago Tribune The story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for Visiting Penelope Fitzgerald's charming husband is a struggling alcoholic, the London literary magazine they edit together is on the brink of bankruptcy, and she is pregnant with their third child. When she receives a mysterious letter dangling the possibility of an inheritance, Penelope sees a creative and practical lifeline that might save them. Based on Fitzgerald's momentous 1952 trip to northern Mexico before she was famous, Jessica Francis Kane's brilliantly imagined Fonseca is both a treasure hunt and a love story. Blending history, biography, and fiction, Kane has created an enthralling world while telling a story about how far someone might go in pursuit of a dream.
Also from
Francis Kane, Jessica
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
From $19.99
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
$5.99
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
From $17.99
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
From $9.99