A Better Life: A Novel

“Excellent. . . . Shriver is such a good writer that you can both imagine where things are going and not be able to predict how they are going to get there.”—Douglas Murray, New York Post

In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant—who may or may not be the innocent she claims to be.

Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her twenty-six-year-old son, Nico, in a sprawling ...