"The Lives of Things" collects Jose Saramago's early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these storie
The Epic Story of Every Living Thing
β Scribed by Deb Caletti
- Book ID
- 110759305
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593485538
- ASIN
- B09RGSTQGJ
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β¦ Synopsis
From the award-winning author of A Heart in a Body in The World comes a gorgeous and fiercely feminist young adult novel. When a teen travels to Hawaii to track down her sperm donor father, she discovers the truth about him, about the sunken shipwreck thatβs become his obsession, and most of all about herself.
Harper ProulxΒ has lived her whole life with unanswered questions about her anonymous sperm donor father. She's convinced that without knowing him, she can't know herself. When a chance Instagram post connects Harper to a half sibling, that connection yields many more and ultimately leads Harper to uncover her father's identity.
So, fresh from a painful breakup and still reeling with anxiety that reached a lifetime high during the pandemic, Harper joins her newfound half siblings on a voyage to Hawaii to face their father. The events of that summer, and the man they discoverβa charismatic deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a fragile sunken shipwreckβwill force Harper to face some even bigger questions: Who is she? Is she her DNA, her experiences, her successes, her failures? Is she the things she lovesβor the things she hates? Who she is in dark times? Who she might become after them?
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