Last Things

By: Jenny Offill

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Paperback | 17 March 2015

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272 Pages

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20.96 x 13.34 x 2.54

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Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace's mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep. Grace's world, of fact and fiction, marvels and madness, is slowly unraveling because her family is coming apart before her eyes. Now eight-year-old Grace must choose between her two very different, very flawed parents, a choice that will take her on a dizzying journey, away from her home in Vermont to the boozy, flooded streets of New Orleans--and into the equally wondrous and frightening realm of her own imagination.
With eloquence and compassion, Jenny Offill weaves a luminous story of a wounded family and of a young girl yearning to understand the difference between fiction, fact, and hope. A novel of vibrant imagination and searing intelligence, Last Things is a stunning literary achievement.

Industry Reviews

"Remarkable. . . . If 'last things' means things that will last, then Offill's novel is one of them." --The New York Times Book Review

"Beautiful. . . . A gently funny tragedy about childhood and madness. . . . Pokes at the boundaries between reason and imagination." --Newsday

"Sparse, elegant, and inviting. . . . Jenny Offill . . . has created a fantastical family, at times loving and sweet, sorrowful and dangerous." --The Boston Globe

"Offill's deceptively simple prose, her exquisite sense of metaphor and her ear for humor capture the subtle perceptions of this wise child so that we feel to the bone her burgeoning awareness." --Chicago Tribune

"Last Things mines an interval of childhood before the division of intellectual labor. In this state of innocence, science, philosophy, mythology, bunk, wonder, and sorrow are all one. Jenny Offill's complicated and arresting farewell to this dangerous time is compelling as few recent novels on the subject have been." --Rick Moody

"Truly delightful." --The Baltimore Sun

"Stunning. . . . Dazzling. . . . A delightful novel, rich for its voracious eye onto real and imaginary moments of quandary in the lives of its characters and in the larger life of the universe." --Ploughshares

"[A] gem of a first novel." --Los Angeles Times

"Mesmerizing. . . . Pitch-perfect. . . . [Offill] writes with a heartbreaking clarity." --The Times (London)

"Offill's debut is a rare feat of remarkable constraint and nearly miraculous construction of a most unique family." --Publishers Weekly (starred)

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