{"product_id":"9780802126894","title":"The End We Start from","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe #1 Indie Next Selection for November 2017, a Summer\/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Selection, a Fall 2017 Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Amazon Best of the Month in Literature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eThe End We Start From\u003c\/i\u003e is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted—sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet's understanding of how to make each word count.\"—Tracy Chevalier, author of \u003ci\u003eGirl With a Pearl Earring\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreempted by publishers around the world within days of the 2016 London Book Fair, \u003ci\u003eThe End We Start From\u003c\/i\u003e heralds the arrival of Megan Hunter, a dazzling and unique literary talent. Hunter’s debut is a searing original, a modern-day parable of rebirth and renewal, of maternal bonds, and the instinct to survive and thrive in the absence of all that’s familiar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place. The story traces fear and wonder as the baby grows, thriving and content against all the odds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe End We Start From\u003c\/i\u003e is an indelible and elemental first book—a lyrical vision of the strangeness and beauty of new motherhood, and a tale of endurance in the face of ungovernable change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“In elegiac lines, Hunter tells a love story through the eyes of a new mother, who witnesses the death of an old life and the start of a new one...a perfect portrait of rebirth the final testament that time, and life, do go on, despite our best efforts.”—Cotton Codinha, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030311256304,"sku":"9780802126894","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802126894_p0.jpg?v=1763727170","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802126894","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}