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National Bestseller * A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize * Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award * One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Southern Living, NOW Magazine, Commonweal, The Washington Independent Review of Books, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Globe and Mail, BOMB Magazine, and The National Post (Canada) The Stunning Second Novel of a Trilogy That Began with Outline, One of New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearIn the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children.