Wonders

AN AUDACIOUS, HEARTBREAKING DEBUT ABOUT WORKING-CLASS WOMEN’S LIVES ACROSS TWO GENERATIONS, HERALDING A NEW EUROPEAN LITERARY STAR María and Alicia are a grandmother and granddaughter who have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of money and independence. María, scraping together a living to send money back home for the daughter she barely knows; Alicia, trapped in a poorly paid job and a cycle of banal affairs. Their lives are marked by precarity, and by the haunting sense of how things might have been. Audacious, intimate and boldly lyrical, The Wonders is a revelatory novel about a broken family, and the power of inheritance to make and unmake us.