Author: lilyking

From the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria: Aspiring novelist Casey Peabody arrives in Massachusetts, still reeling from heartbreak and consumed by grief — and soon finds herself struggling to choose between two different paths. “The book occupies a small space, but packs it to the brim with humanity” (Entertainment Weekly).

“It’s that moment about two months in, when you think you’ve finally got a handle on the place. Everything clicks and it all feels within your grasp…at that moment the place feels entirely yours. It’s the briefest, purest euphoria.” From the critically-acclaimed author of Father of the Rain comes a breathtaking novel about three gifted and groundbreaking anthropologists of the ‘30s bound together … bound together by an all-consuming passion. For years, English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field studying the Kiona tribe of Papua New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brother’s public suicide, and…