**The adventures of two families unfold and intertwine through the decades in this **"**astoundingly audacious debut" (*O: The Oprah Magazine*), "**gorgeous generational saga" (*New York Post*), and "great, grand tabernacle of a novel" (Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prizeβwinning author of *Tinkers*).*****
The travelers: a novel
β Scribed by Regina Porter
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype;Hogarth
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0525576215
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β¦ Synopsis
The adventures of two families unfold and intertwine through the decades in this "astoundingly audacious debut" (O: The Oprah Magazine), "gorgeous generational saga" (New York Post), and "great, grand tabernacle of a novel" (Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prizeβwinning author of Tinkers).
Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father's meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie.
Claudia's motherβAgnes Miller Christieβis a beautiful African American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam, where Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" becomes Eddie's...
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