The most thrilling work yet from the bestselling, prizewinning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single yearA bighearted, tightlyplotted novel that bravely takes on our times by looking at the timeless stuff of human intimacy. The Limits is an immersive and powerful book. Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World BehindFrom Moorea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesias imperiled coral reefs sends her teenage daughter to live with her exhusband in New York. By the time fifteenyearold Pia arrives at her father Stephens luxury apartment in Manhattan and meets his new, younger wife, Kate, she has been shuttled between her parents disparate livesher fathers consuming work as a surgeon at an overwhelmed New York hospital, her mothers relentless drive against a ticking ecological clockfor most of her life. Fluent in French, intellectually precocious, moving between cultures with seeming ease, Pia arrives in New York poised for a rebellion, just as COVID sends her and her stepmother together into near total isolation.A New York City schoolteacher, Kate struggles to connect with a teenager whose capacity for destruction seems exceeded only by her privilege. Even as Kate fails to parent Piaand questions her own ability to become a motherone of her sixteenyearold students is...

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 376 g; Dimensions: 132 x 205 x 24

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