The Coast of Everything

"To find the centre, begin at the edge . . . A devoted daughter unwittingly condemns her father and herself. A dutiful soldier sentences his daughter to a loveless exile and her mother to madness. With her last breath a sick woman exhales the whole world. A girl with a broken body holds it up. Their stories bleed into one another, tributaries in search of a common sea; wanderers in the desert in search of an oasis; ink racing through blotting paper. A book with no ending and endless beginni...