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Taking place in a remote house in the south-west of Ireland, this rich and vivid novel spans seven years and speaks to the times we live in, asking how we may withdraw, how better to live in the natural world, and how the choices made or avoided lead us home.

Una deslumbrante novela sobre una joven mujer negra que recorre las calles de Oakland y se enfrenta al fracaso de su sistema de justicia. Kiara y su hermano, Marcus, luchan por sobrevivir en un complejo de apartamentos en East Oakland. Ambos han abandonado la escuela secundaria, y su familia está fracturada por la muerte y la prisión. Mientras Marcus se aferra a su sueño de ser estrella de rap, Kiara busca trabajo para pagar el alquiler, que ha aumentado considerablemente, y para cuidar de un niño de nueve años que vive al lado, abandonado por su madre. Una noche, un malentendido con un extraño se convierte en el trabajo que Kiara nunca imaginó desear, pero que ahora necesita desesperadamente: trabajar de "nightcrawler". Su mundo se desmorona aún más cuando su nombre aparece en una investigación que la revela como testigo clave en un escándalo masivo dentro del Departamento de Policía de Oakland. Con una belleza cruda, intensidad electrizante y vulnerabilidad desgarradora, esta novela marca la llegada impactante de una voz única.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020* On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendez-vous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven. These precious, hidden hours are their only nourishment. But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink – with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other. And so, after half a lifetime spent in secret, certain long-avoided facts need to be faced, consequences examined, decisions made, and – perhaps – chances finally taken. A quiet, intense drama of late-flowering intimacy, My Coney Island Baby condenses, within the course of a single day, the histories, landscapes, tragedies and moments of wonder that constitute the lives of two people who, although born worlds apart, have been drawn together. O’Callaghan, a masterful prose stylist, has created a devastatingly powerful novel about two unforgettable characters and the choices they have made. This is a book full of sorrow, but also radiant with beauty, longing and breathless desire.

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.