A journalist living in Milan, Rosey is waiting alone in hospital for an emergency induction to give birth to her first child. Paging through a history of postwar Europe, she finds herself considering the forces that have shaped her life: family, history, chance, gender and ambition, and her journey from small-town America to metropolitan Italy via her role as a fact checker at one of New York's most prestigious magazines. Most of all, she thinks about her father, Billy Harkness, a gun-collecting survivalist increasingly in thrall to conspiracy theories.
Symphony in Q is a captivating portrait of a father and daughter's fraught love, which endures despite their profound differences, spanning generations and continents to examine our responsibility to truth at the personal, political, and artistic levels. Brilliant, funny, tender and unsparing, it asks what we inherit and what we reject, and how we become the people that we are. It is an astonishing feat of imagination and compassion from one of the most exciting novelists at work today.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Symphony in Q is a captivating portrait of a father and daughter's fraught love, which endures despite their profound differences, spanning generations and continents to examine our responsibility to truth at the personal, political, and artistic levels. Brilliant, funny, tender and unsparing, it asks what we inherit and what we reject, and how we become the people that we are. It is an astonishing feat of imagination and compassion from one of the most exciting novelists at work today.
Genre: Literary Fiction