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The Morningside
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ISBN10: 1984855522
ISBN13: 9781984855527
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781984855527
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss (People) from the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland
I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht's prose. . . Read in the context of today's conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial divisions--together more dystopian than any dystopian novel--the book surprised me most with its undercurrent of hope.--Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers, in The New York Times (Editors' Choice)
I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht's prose. . . Read in the context of today's conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial divisions--together more dystopian than any dystopian novel--the book surprised me most with its undercurrent of hope.--Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers, in The New York Times (Editors' Choice)
A LIT HUB AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR This Random House Book Club edition includes an author's note, a discussion guide, and background on the myth that inspired the book. There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to the Morningside. After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in a place called Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past, and because the once-vibrant city where she lives is now half-underwater. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her early years, nor does she fully understand why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give the young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia's lonely and impoverished reality. Enchanted by Ena's stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities and becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Bezi Duras is an enigma to everyone in the building: She has her own elevator entrance and leaves only to go out at night and walk her three massive hounds, often not returning until the early morning. Silvia's mission to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past, may end up costing her everything. Startling, inventive, and profoundly moving, The Morningside is a novel about the stories we tell--and the stories we refuse to tell--to make sense of where we came from and who we hope we might become.
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