The Second Coming: A novel
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From the New York Times best-selling author of City on Fire comes an intimate epic that plunges us deep into the lives of a troubled teenage girl and her estranged father when he returns home in an attempt to save her. Navigating love, grief, betrayal, and redemption, Jolie and Ethan must find a way to survive as a family. "Beautiful and daring." --Nathan Hill, author of Oprah's Book Club pick Wellness - "Breathtaking." --Christina Baker Kline, author of #1 New York Times best seller Orphan Train Spring, 2011. When thirteen-year-old Jolie Aspern goes down onto the subway tracks to retrieve her dropped phone--and nearly gets hit by a train--the last thing she wants is sympathy from her estranged dad, Ethan. A recovering addict and felon, now living in California, Ethan has long struggled to see beyond himself. But when news of Jolie's accident reaches him, Ethan comes to fear she's in more serious trouble than anyone realizes. And believing he's the only one who can save her, he decides to return home. So begins the journey of Jolie and Ethan, father and daughter, apart and together, different yet the same. It will stretch from Manhattan in the midst of the Great Recession to a remote beach on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where their lives really began. In time, it will push Jolie out past her depth with a mysterious stranger, and Ethan in over his head with his first love--Jolie's mom. Soaring, aching, full of revelation, The Second Coming is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change?
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0593536924
ISBN13:9780593536926
Release Date:May 2024
Publisher:Knopf Publishing Group
Length:608 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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