The Second Coming
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Publishing:5th Jun '25
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 5th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A luminous new novel from the bestselling author of City on Fire, which plunges deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, betrayal, and redemption.
When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has always struggled to see past himself. But then a call from his ex makes him fear their daughter is in deeper trouble than anyone realizes. And believing he's the only one who can save her, he decides to return to New York with a gift: the whole of his life, its hard-won triumphs, and harrowing mistakes... So begins the intimate epic of Jolie and Ethan: child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same. Their journey towards each other will come under fire from grandparents and siblings and friends. It will push Jolie out past her depth with a mysterious admirer, and Ethan in over his head with his first love, Jolie's mother. The Second Coming is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever truly change?
Reading Garth Risk Hallberg is a constant delightful surprise - you never know what's coming next... The Second Coming is a beautiful and daring novel, as inventive as it is breathtaking -- Nathan Hill
Garth Risk Hallberg's The Second Coming is a sprawling, aching, ultimately hopeful account of a father's love for a daughter and a daughter's defiance of that love when all too often it manifests as dysfunction. Hallberg deals with the dilemma of parental inheritance with a light touch, and the grace that finally descends on the Aspern clan is not only transformative but triumphant -- Joshua Ferris
A powerful statement about the clarifying purpose in parental love... A fascinating - and convincing - portrait of a daughter in crisis and a father in need of redemption -- Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves
Garth Risk Hallberg's great gift is his ability to translate epic themes into intensely intimate, cumulatively powerful novels. Full of tension and emotion and populated by vivid characters and ideas, The Second Coming builds word by word to capture the intricacies of life while revealing its own breathtaking scope -- Christina Baker Kline, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train
ISBN: 9781803511092
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
704 pages