New York Times "16 Books to Read in September" • Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction • A sweeping and beautifully rendered exploration of home and yearning, following the fracturing of a family upon the demise of its patriarch "A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers to be savored for its beautiful language and profound insights into families, relationships and life" —Bernardine Evaristo, Booker prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, consuming Grenfell Tower and many of the lives within it. Across town, an earlier spark has caught fire. A cigarette left burning in an ashtray. A table strewn with post-it reminders and old newspapers. And one Cornelius Winston Pitt—estranged husband, complicated dad, and Pitt family patriarch—takes his...
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New York Times "16 Books to Read in September" • Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction • A sweeping and beautifully rendered exploration of home and yearning, following the fracturing of a family upon the demise of its patriarch"A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers to be savored for its beautiful language and profound insights into families, relationships and life"
—Bernardine Evaristo, Booker prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, consuming Grenfell Tower and many of the lives within it. Across town, an earlier spark has caught fire. A cigarette left burning in an ashtray. A table strewn with post-it reminders and old newspapers. And one Cornelius Winston Pitt—estranged husband, complicated dad, and Pitt family patriarch—takes his...