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Richly rewarding, stand-out fiction. BERNARDINE EVARISTO
Every word has the touch of a genius. BENJAMIN ZAPHANIAH
A hilarious, moving story of two sisters who embark on a road trip to protect the legacy of their artist mother, grappling with past secrets along the way
When Mattie and Noras mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned Norwegian painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise she asked her daughters to make: Burn it all. Throw it all away. Ingrid didnt want any of her art sold, didnt want it celebrated.
Two years later, Mattie hasnt done anything except for lock the pieces in a storage unit. Shes barely seen Nora since Nora skipped their mothers funeral. Besides, she has her hands full raising the bold, creative teenage daughter she had when she was only a teenager herself. It was giving birth to Beanie that let her escape her mothers housethat and the support of Beanies father, Gus.
But when Nora, an artist herself, falls deep into a mental health crisis of her own, she comes to live with Mattie and Beanie. And when their aunt Karo sets up the very last thing their mother ever would have wantedan enormous retrospective of her workthe two of them somehow find themselves on the road trip of their lives: up the West Coast of the United States, with Beanie and their mothers ashes in tow.
Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six, and told partly in the form of the interviews that comprise Ingrids biography, Daughters is tender, comic story of unpicking the scars of the past, and a must-read.
Author: Kirsty Capes
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781419781070
Language: English
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