*Shortlisted for the National Book Award*

*Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize*

*Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award*

*Winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize*

'Funny, heartbreaking, with the sort of characters you'll miss like family when you finish' - Elizabeth McCracken

'Flournoy is a magician. Here is a story that is charming and funny while being whip-smart and profound' - Tayari Jones

'An expansive and ambitious novel that descends through the generations of one family's history to achieve real poignancy and power' - TC Boyle

'An engrossing and remarkably mature first novel... There is a trace of Gabriel García Márquez' - New York Times

'An elegant and assured debut' - Washington Post

'Flournoy's finely tuned empathy infuses her characters with a radiant humanity' - O Magazine

'Flournoy's richly wrought prose and intimate, vivid dialogue make this novel feel like settling deeply into the family armchair' - Entertainment Weekly