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*'furious And Addictive' New York Times *'urgent, Deeply Moving, Wholly Original' George Saunders, The Man Booker-prize Winning Author Of Lincoln In The Bardo*'a Dazzling Lightning Bolt Of A Novel' Jenny Offill*'fiercely Funny And Deliciously Subversive' Yiyun Lijust As It Seems She Has It All, Samantha Raymond's Life Begins To Come Apart: Trump Has Been Elected, Her Mother Is Ill And Her Teenage Daughter Is Increasingly Remote. At Fifty-two She Finds Herself Staring Into 'the Mids' - Those Night-time Hours Of Supreme Wakefulness Where Women Of A Certain Age Contemplate Their Lives. In Sam's Case, This Means Motherhood, Mortality, And The State Of An Unravelling Nation.when Sam Falls In Love With A Beautiful, Decrepit House On The Wrong Side Of Town, She Buys It On A Whim And Flees Her Suburban Life - And Her Family - In An Attempt To Find Beauty In The Ruins.'exhilarating. . . A Virtuosic, Singular And Very Funny Portrait Of A Woman Seeking Sanity And Purpose In A World Gone Mad' New York Times Book Review'what Begins As A Vertiginous Leap Into Hilarious Rabbit Holes Ends As A Brilliant Meditation On Mortality And Time. How Does She Do It? Only Dana Spiotta Knows. I'm Just Happy To See Her Work Her Magic' Jenny Offill