Day: A Novel

ISBN: 0399591346

Author: Cunningham, Michael

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTELLER An exquisite (The Boston Globe) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life-and how we all must learn to live together and apart-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The HoursThe only problem with Michael Cunninghams prose is that it ruins you for mere mortals work. He is the most elegant writer in America.-The Washington PostNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Harpers Bazaar, Chicago Public Library, Lit Hub, Paste, Kirkus ReviewsApril 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart-and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabels younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, is living vicariously through a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house-and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.April 5, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown, the cozy brownstone is starting to feel more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled sleights and frustrated sighs. And dear Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts-and his secret Instagram life-for company.April 5, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family reckons with a new, very different reality-and with what theyve learned, what theyve lost, and how they might go on.[Cunningham] is one of loves greatest witnesses.-Los Angeles TimesAn absolutely stunning portrait of humanity . . . a masterpiece.-Literary Hub