{"product_id":"beginning-middle-end","title":"Beginning Middle End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat our staff have to say:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This is one of the most lovely, astounding books I’ve read! A mother takes her daughter on a journey across Sicily, in search of new beginnings, in the midst of life, and after the end of a marriage. Volcanoes, swordfish, mosaic tiles, and Classic philosophers people these pages. This book feels like magic: thoughtful, searching, curious, and completely surprising.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/champaca.in\/collections\/all\/niri-recommends\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNirica\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll I had to do, or so I thought, was to answer a simple question: How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA mother and a daughter take off on a road trip after the collapse of a marriage. Their journey begins in Sicily during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles and sudden tempests. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow do you begin again,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe mother wonders, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eif you got the beginning wrong\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e? The trip soon becomes a quest for origins – not just through their family history, but also further back to a mythical and even geological past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith her daughter leaving childhood behind and her mother beginning to show signs of dementia, the narrator finds herself at a crossroads. She must now ask herself: How do we situate ourselves deeply in the world while accepting our transience in it? How are a family's memories made and what happens when they disappear?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA road novel, a mother-daughter story, a radical portrait of starting over, in all its forms, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBeginning Middle End \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoffers an exhilarating testament to the power of the stories and the loves we hold most dear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fourth Estate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43825702436899,"sku":null,"price":1399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81gcoYWItAL._SL1500_-2.jpg?v=1787637966","url":"https:\/\/champaca.in\/products\/beginning-middle-end","provider":"Champaca Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}