The Second Coming
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A luminous novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City
on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her
father as they navigate love, grief, addiction, redemption and
connection. When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the
subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the
furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering
addict, Ethan has always struggled to see past himself.But then a
call from his ex makes him fear their daughter's in deeper trouble
than anyone realises. Believing he's the only one who can save her,
he decides to return to New York with a gift: the whole of his
life, its hard-won triumphs and harrowing mistakes... So begins the
intimate epic of Jolie and Ethan: child and adult, apart and
together, different yet the same.Their journey toward each other
will face opposition from grandparents and siblings and friends. It
will strain connections with roommates and benefactors and a
probation officer desperate to help. It will push Jolie out past
her depth with a mysterious admirer, and Ethan in over his head
with his first love, Jolie's mom.But as father and daughter
struggle to find their footing, new vistas beckon: from a surf
break in mid-'90s Delaware to group therapy during the Great
Recession, from an encampment at Occupy Wall Street to a HoJo on
Maryland's Eastern Shore, from the heights of the Brooklyn Bridge
to horizons seldom seen in fiction. The Second Coming is at once an
incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring
mystery: can we ever really outrun the past, stay true to ourselves
while still chasing something new? Full of music and pathos and
passion, this beautifully attuned work of fiction makes good Garth
Risk Hallberg's extraordinary promise.
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Garth Risk Hallberg ,
Granta Publications Ltd
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Granta Publications Ltd
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