Day: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTELLER A quietly stunning (Ocean Vuong) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family lifeand how we all must learn to live together and apartfrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Hours Along with George Eliot, Michael Cunningham belongs in that rare group of novelists who hold the world close, with apparently infinite respect, compassion, and tenderness, all while describing the world and its inhabitants unsparingly.Tony Kushner NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Harpers Bazaar, Chicago Public Library, Lit Hub, Paste, Kirkus Reviews April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apartand both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabels younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, is living vicariously through a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the houseand whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents. April 5, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown, the cozy brownstone is starting to feel more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled sleights and frustrated sighs. And dear Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughtsand his secret Instagram lifefor company. April 5, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family reckons with a new, very different realityand with what theyve learned, what theyve lost, and how they might go on.