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A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR: "Lit with remembered warmth, happiness, laughter, and a kind of lightness characteristic of its writer." (James Wood, The New Yorker)

“Epigrammatic and intimate . . . A consolation rather than a provocation, and occasionally darkly funny . . . It might have you mulling your own pithy epitaph.” —Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times Book Review

From the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter comes a powerful novel about a father, a son, and the botany of grief.

“The simplicity and depth of this crystal-clear prose fill me with great admiration.” —Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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