A People Magazine Pick and winner of the Miles Franklin Book Award Funny, poignant, and galvanizing by turns, Josephine Wilsons award-winning novel explores many kinds of extinctionnatural, racial, national, and personaland what we might do to prevent them. Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, has quarantined himself in a place he hates: a retirement village. His headstrong wife Martha, adored by all, is dead. His adopted daughter Caroline has cut ties, and his son Callum is lost to him in his own way. And though Frederick knows, logically, that a structural engineer can devise a bridge for any situation, somehow his own troubled familyfractured by years of secrets and liesis always just out of his reach. When a series of unfortunate incidents brings him and his spirited next-door neighbor Jan together, Frederick gets a chance to build something new in the life he has left. At the age of 69, he has to confront his most complex emotional relationships and the haunting questions hes avoided all his life. Unbeknownst to him, Carolineon her own journey of cultural reckoningis doing the same. As father and daughter fight in their own ways to save whats lost, they might finally find a way toward each other. A masterful portrait of a man caught by history, and a sweeping meditation on the meaning of family, love, survival, and identity, Extinctions asks an urgent question: can we find the courage to change?
- | Author: Josephine Wilson
- | Publisher: Tin House Books
- | Publication Date: Nov 20, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 358 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 194779308X
- | ISBN-13: 9781947793088
- Author:
- Josephine Wilson
- Publisher:
- Tin House Books
- Publication Date:
- Nov 20, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 358 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 194779308X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781947793088