Winter 1952. Penelope Fitzgeralds husband is a struggling alcoholic, their literary journal is on the brink, and she is pregnant with their third child. When she receives a letter from two elderly sisters named Delaney, distant relations with a silver mine, who dangle the possibility of an inheritance, she recognizes it as a creative and practical lifeline. Jessica Francis Kanes brilliantly imagined Fonseca fictionalizes Penelopes real and momentous trip to northern Mexico in pursuit of this legacy. She leaves her twoyearold, Tina, with relatives and sails for New York with her sixyearold, Valpy, in tow. From there, mother and son take a bus all the way to... Fonseca. But when they arrive, nothing goes to plan. There are others vying for the Delaney money, and for three months, from Day of the Dead to Candlemas, Penelope must navigate a quixotic household and guide her impressionable son. More and more people frequent the house an ambitious American couple, various local entrepreneurs and artists (including Edward Hopper and his wife, Jo), and finally a handsome stranger who claims he is a Delaney. With heart, humour, and a deep understanding of her subject that has characterized the range of her work her whole career, Kane (whose work could have been written by Jane Austens great greatgreatgranddaughter Oprah Daily) has written much more than an homage Fonseca is an enthralling world of its own as well as a stunning fictionalization of a season in Fitzgeralds life.

Binding: Hardback;272 pages; Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 482 g; Dimensions: 147 x 218 x 26

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