Holiday Country: A Novel

by İnci Atrek

A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic vacation on the Aegean coast

"A gorgeous exploration." —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, endless olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons.

When Levent, a mysterious man from her mother’s past, shows up in their town, Ada can’t help but imagine a different future for her mother—one that promises a return to home, to love, to happiness. But while playing matchmaker, Ada has to come to terms with her own intensifying attraction to Levent. Does the future she’s fighting for belong to her mother—or to her alone?

Lush and evocative, İnci Atrek’s Holiday Country is a rapturous meditation about what it means to experience being of two worlds, the limitations and freedom of a life in translation, and the intricacies of a love triangle that stretches across generations and continents.

Genres: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Coming Of Age, Summer Reads

263 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 9, 2024

Reviews

[Katie B · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

Holiday Country was an interesting read because it explores Turkish culture, mother-daughter dynamics, and the desire to belong, among other things. Even though I struggled to understand some of the main character's decisions, I don't consider that a total negative. I'll take a complex character over one who is picture perfect any day of the week.

Every summer Ada along with her mother, Meltem, travel to her grandmother's villa in a Turkish seaside town. Meltem grew up in Turkey but after getting married she moved to the United States which is where Ada was raised. Since coming to the US, Meltem has pretty much lost her identity and feels stuck between two countries. Ada struggles with this feeling of not truly belonging in Turkey. When Ada meets, Levent, a man from Meltem's past, he might further complicate matters.

By the time I picked up this book after winning it in Goodreads giveaway, I had long forgotten the publisher synopsis. So yeah, I was thrown for a loop when the story goes in a direction I had not forseen. Up until that point I felt like I was understanding the story the author was trying to tell. This is one of those times I'd greatly benefit from either a book club discussion or reading an interview with the author and talking about the characters' motivations.

[Shannon (The Book Club Mom) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Snore. Meh. Ugh. Total snoozefest. The writing was beautiful, but the plot was super boring. Nothing really happened until the last 25% of the novel. Super unlikable characters too. I should have DNFed this one, but I hate to not finish a book!

[Trio · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an intriguing first novel! I was repeatedly impressed with Inci Atrek's writing style, which flows beautifully in Holiday Country. I'm excited to see what this talented author has in store for us next.

I had a whole bunch of feelings crop up while listening to this story. All the tensions between mother/daughter/grandmother and all the variations of interactions between these three. And while I didn’t like some of what went on, and some of the decisions these characters made, that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the book.

When I’m still thinking about a story several days later, I have to give props to the author. So KUDOS to you Inci Atrek, for writing something so raw and intimate and powerful. It’s not often I get that sensation, and I like it when it happens.

The audio version of Holiday Country is performed by Ayse Babahan who does a marvelous job with this varied cast of all ages and walks of life. Lots of accents too. Well done.

an audiobook copy of Holiday Country was provided by Macmillan Audio, via NetGalley, for the purpose of my honest review, all opinions are my own

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved this novel so so much. extremely rude for a debut to be this good!

[Shelby (catching up on 2025 reviews) · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 rounded up to 5

Thank you Flatiron, BookSparks and Macmillan Audio for my gifted copies.

Holiday Country is a poignant, lyrical, debut coming-of-age novel about Ada, a California-born teen who summers with her mom and grandma in Ayvalik, a small town off the Aegean coast of Turkey. During her nineteenth year and fifteenth trip to Turkey, Ada finds herself falling for someone from her mother's past - a man twice her age. Ada grapples with what it means to become an adult, the changing dynamics within her family, and feeling caught between cultures as an American of Turkish heritage. Exploring themes of womanhood, identity, belonging, and tumultuous mother daughter relationships, Holiday Country is going to tick all the boxes for many readers. The author writes from years of experience in Turkey and along the Aegean coast. Her descriptions are lush and vibrant, painting picturesque settings through her evocative use of words. I listened to the majority of this via audiobook, and the narration is just fantastic! Narrator Ayse Babahan was the perfect choice, and really does this story justice.

I highly recommend for fans of character driven & literary fiction novels.

Coming in at 272 pages, this was a super quick read. I was able to read/listen to it in one day!

Available tomorrow (1/9/24)!!!!

[kaitlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

what do ratings even mean. this book took my breath away, made me frustrated and impatient, smacked me over the head. sometimes drawn out / pretentious / self-important and grandiose at times (without the acknowledgement of being about a nineteen year old) but earnest and interesting nevertheless. in the lessons on withholding and firing the gun, holiday country should be on the reading list. this one is for the community of readers and writers vested in the interior lives of elite university immigrant/american girls coming into their own. for the girlies, some might say.

(small nit but i found it hard to believe ada was a stanford student AND especially that ian was a stanford boy. just felt incongruous to me)

[Bbecca_marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received Holiday Country as an ALC and unfortunately it fell flat. The book lacked a compelling storyline and I felt like the plot remained stagnant until the final chapters, leaving me feeling unengaged and disappointed. The narrator was great and I was able to at least finish the book, but without any significant developments (until the end), it made it difficult for me to stay invested in the story. Please take this with a grain of salt as we all read different books and although it was a miss for me, there are a ton of other who loved it!

Thank you so much NetGalley and Macmillan audio for the ALC and the chance to review it honestly.

Happy reading!

[Emily Nicoletta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Aside from some interesting descriptions of summering on the beautiful Aegean coast in Turkey, there were very few things I liked about “Holiday Country.”

I have always been a massive fan of a flawed female lead. Young women making terrible decisions because they don’t know better or just want to go against societal norms are like catnip to me. But Ada blew way past charming imperfection and straight into outright audaciousness, insufferableness, and self-absorption. I quite literally hated everything about her. Yes, she is young, but she is not dumb or unaware of outright boundaries. Her selfishness, holier-than-thou attitude, lack of responsibility, seeing her Turkish family, friends, and community as less than or embarrassing, and constant victim mentality made me wish somebody gave her the swift smack in the face she deserved.

A nineteen-year-old pining over a forbidden older man isn’t necessarily an unheard-of storyline, but the way it came about and the way the story unfolded felt so incredibly forced and unnatural to me. Ignoring the fact that Ada absolutely wins the worst daughter of all time award for going after the man her mother once loved, it didn’t even remotely feel like Levent liked Ada at all. I’m not saying it like “he’s an older man who didn’t like her but was just taking advantage of a naive young woman”; I mean this man did not want to be around her period, and there was not a single ounce of chemistry to justify this entire storyline. Every single one of their interactions made me feel like I was watching him be held hostage.

I also had issues with the writing style; it often came off as odd to me. Characters interacted at such a distant surface level that we rarely got a strong internal monologue. The timelines, locations, and situations constantly jumped around so rapidly that I found myself confused about how we got to certain points and had to check that I wasn’t missing pages or something.

Finally, I hated the ending of this book because Ada got off too easy, transitioning the blame to others and not even remotely taking responsibility for her actions. It ultimately felt like she got off scot-free and literally didn’t do a single ounce of work to improve herself. She just psychoanalyzed her mom and grandma and continued on her life still thinking she was perfect and that she didn’t do any wrong, and started planning her return trip.

ADA NEEDED TO BE HUMBLED.

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 rounded up.

A lyrical debut that was both an entertaining family drama, coming of age love story and travel romance all rolled into one. I really enjoyed the Turkish American mother-daughter, multigenerational aspects of the story. The descriptions of the Aegean coast, the forbidden summer affair with an older man and the contrast between the 'new' world and the 'old' were all fascinating. This was also good on audio and marks a new author to watch! Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early audio copy in exchange for my honest review!

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Holiday Country by Inci Atrek is a beautiful story bogged down by an inaccurate synopsis. The description made it seem like a dark, risque love triangle, something ala Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky, but it was very much not that.

Holiday Country is a coming-of-age story about culture, belonging and finding your place in the world. Ada was born-and-raised in California, but spent every summer in her mother's native Turkey, in a close-knit resort town full of Turkish citizens who call the country home year-round. Ada can't stop imagining what her life would have been like if she had been raised in Turkey and was able to celebrate her culture in a way that she simply can't in California. In order to find connection with her mother's homeland, and try to build a life for herself in a country she can't quite call home, Ada makes a series of destructive decisions that change the course of her life forever.

There's none of the raunch here that I feel was hinted at in the book's synopsis. Holiday Country is instead an atmospheric, character-driven story full of insight into the immigrant experience. It was the perfect read for the freezing winter months, because I was truly transported to the warmth and comfort of the Aegean Sea. I love books set on vacation, that bring to life that carefree, lazy feel of having nothing to do and nowhere to be, and Holiday Country fit the bill. I felt like I didn't have to set my alarm in the morning!

More than anything, Holiday Country is the story of mothers and daughters. Of wanting to fulfill the dreams of your mother while also forging your own path. It was complicated and messy and so well done.

I really loved this one! I looked forward to getting lost in it each day, and truly felt like I was on vacation in the Turkish seaside. Looking forward to seeing what Atrek does next!

[Kelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

ARC received courtesy of Goodreads.com First Reads Giveaway

I had a hard time staying engaged with this novel. I didn't find any of the characters particularly likeable. I didn't care if the relationships between the characters could be mended or not. The setting in Turkey was interesting and the cultural differences kept me reading.

As a young college student, Ada's mother, Meltem, left Turkey and went to Paris where she met her future husband. They married and moved to California. In Ada's opinion, her mother has lived her life on the outside of both America and Turkey, neither Turkish or American.

Ada and her mother spend 3 months every summer on the Aegean Sea in Turkey with Ada's grandmother. The tension and unmet expectations each has for the other is what drives the story. Ada's grandmother is full of negativity toward Meltem because she married and moved to America. She is unhappy and alone and tries to make decisions for Meltem and Ada behind their backs. As they are settling in for the summer, Ada meets an older man, Levant, who used to date her mother. The story moves around Levant and the three generations of women in, what will probably be, Ada's last full summer there.

Author, Inci Atrek, certainly knows the bonds between mother and daughter will stretch just so far before they break. I found the relationships interesting, but I didn't really like any of the characters. I think that most women can relate to tense relationships with their mothers/daughters. Many times, like Ada, we think we know what our mother needs or who our mother was before being a parent; this supposition is grossly untrue. We only know what our mothers choose to divulge, the rest, we make up.

[Nicole (Bookiesandtea) · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I first started Holiday Country, I was a little unsure what was actually going on. As the first half of the book was a bit slow going for me. However, as I continued to read, I became more intrigued with the storyline.

This novel centers around a sense of belonging, self-discovery, mother-daughter relationships, and Turkish culture.

Every Summer, Ada and her mother, Meltem, has been traveling to Turkey to visit with her grandmother. Both Ada and her mom have struggled with the sense of belonging. As Meltem left Turkey after college to move to the U.S. where Ada has been raised.

Meltem has always struggled with self to please her own mother. And Ada struggling with self to not turn into her mother.

The choices, though Ada made to be nothing like what she perceived her mother to be, were quite scandelous and messy. And even though I highly didn't agree with what she did and was honestly kind of cringey, it also brought some awakening "aha" moments for both mother and daughter.

One of the main things I loved was how the author explored the views children can have on their parents' lives, believing they know what's best for them and not grasping the concepts that their parents really had separate lives before they became parents. I feel like this resonates with a lot of young people who are on the verge of adulthood and trying to figure out who they want to be.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone who reveres the establishment of sense of place perhaps more than any other aspect of a piece of fiction, I was beyond delighted by this book. That the story itself is also wonderful, the writing both beautiful and wryly clever, and the protagonist an absolute gem just felt like icing on the cake.

The feel of the Aegean Turkish coast here was so gorgeously alive and exquisitely rendered, as was our heroine’s place (or perhaps inability to find one there?) in the summer paradise where her family has spent its summers since well before her birth.

There’s an interesting generational dynamic at play in the relationship from daughter to mother to grandmother, though it’s primarily the action taking place in the present that captivates. That said, the story is also an excellent lesson on how the past informs the present (sins of the mother, and such), and how our roles are often defined by whatever void is left vacant by those who come before us.

I can’t wait to read more of Atrek’s work in the future.

*I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.*

[diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars— Well, I’d like to begin by pointing out the beautiful writing. I mean, I genuinely felt like I was spending a summer on a Turkish seaside town—a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business.

Yet, while I felt the descriptive language was spectacular, I didn’t feel like the characters were. Perhaps it was their awful decision-making (by awful, I mean they were outrageous) that made them insufferable to me, but I just really didn’t feel connected to any of them. I just couldn’t identify with any of them.

Nonetheless, I think the author does a beautiful job of integrating Turkish culture into a story concerning the pursuit of one’s place in the world/society and the complexities within the relationship of mothers and daughters.

[Alexa Marmion · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5🌟 Oh I LOVED this. Must read if you like the idiot, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, the rachel incident, or maybe even sally rooney

[Anne Jisca · Rating 1 out of 5]

I liked the descriptions of the local Turkey landscape, and snippets of the local language. It’s not a country I’ve read highlighted in books before.

Unfortunately, I never managed to get into this storyline.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

[Kathryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this copy as a giveaway prize from Flatiron Books. This is a beautifully woven multi-generational tale of three women and the ties that bind them. Atrek is clearly a master of language and syntax though this is her first book, and I would very much classify this as a literary novel. Her stunning descriptions of the Turkish coast made me want to book a plane ticket immediately! I wanted to be Ada enjoying time on the beach with friends. It was a lovely little world Atrek submersed me in. The perfect beach read for literary minds!

I really enjoyed both the physical and cultural exploration of Turkey, but Atrek often focuses on it more than the plot, so much so that it feels like nothing is really happening in this book for a long time. This book has a very slow start, and the pacing made it difficult for me to persevere. That, along with my dislike of all the characters, makes this novel struggle to be compelling. Ada’s desires to identify with a home and a country are beautiful and important, but the way the author executes her protagonist’s path to fulfill these desires is just so strange and makes this book so much less “lovely.”

Though I struggle immensely to identify with Ada’s decisions, and her character overall, her capacity for longing does hit a deep nerve for me. I enjoy that Ada’s coming-of-age is messy, and even though my experience at her age was not identical, I do identify with the desire inherently present on the cusp of becoming a woman. Atrek captures that indescribably beautifully. Atrek also thoroughly impresses with her description of displacement and the feeling of not belonging, or feeling like you belong in two places. She also masters the way family, particularly mothers, can affect that displacement for daughters. I do feel like I even gained insight about my relationship with my own mom after reading this, even though it couldn’t be more different than the relationships Atrek describes.

Overall, an impressive first novel, but hoping Atrek will find a way to draw in readers a little more in the future! Her sentences are stunning and worth reading, and her stories are deep and moving, but I feel some readers will be unable to push past the slowness that plagues this novel’s start.

[Ipek (ipekreading) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Holiday Country is about Ada, a Turkish American 19yo who lives in LA and visits a coastal town in Turkey during summer holidays. As she’s coming of age and trying to figure out how her identity as a part American and part Turkish person fits in both locations, she gets fascinated by an older guy who her mom used to date, which leads to her making a series of bad decisions.

I ended up loving this one, but it wasn’t for the usual reasons. I loved it because Atrek’s writing was gorgeous and because her observations were absolutely spot on and the feeling of nostalgia was really strong. I am very familiar with the long Turkish summer holidays and the tight knit community of summer houses. And much like those holidays, not much happens in the novel. Ada is in her head, desperately trying to figure out who she is and how she fits in, especially when she is visiting Turkey, who she would have been if her mother hadn’t moved to the US. While I found how Ada explores these quite bizarre, it is so easy to romanticize things you only see the best sides of. As a side note I think this may have been the first time I related more to an MC’s mother than the MC themselves and it’s put me in a minor existential crisis.

I also had the pleasure of listening to the audiobook of this one, and I absolutely loved how the narrator Ayse Babahan switched her accent from neutral to a Turkish accent based on dialogue. It’s also a fun way to hear how some of the words are pronounced if you go that route.

Thank you so much to Flatiron for the ARC and Macmillan Audio for the ALC.

[Jenna · Rating 1 out of 5]

At about 150 pages, I realized this is a book about a girl believing women need a romantic relationship with a man to anchor them to a place, and a meaningful? exciting? true? life.


I skipped to the last 30ish pages in which Ada kind of learns a woman can have home, maybe even a personality, without a man, but she doesn't seem to learn it with any deep sense of conviction.


Even if the author set out to say "See! Women don't need a romantic relationship to be a real person", Ada's constant, and totally unchallenged, insistence on the idea was so thorough that the glimmer of independence at the end doesn't help much.

[Carol Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Literary fiction nerds, this one is for you. The masterful syntax, the beautiful Turkish coastline, and introspection… It’s the sort of novel I would expect from a well-established professor, not as a debut. The emotions were equal parts messy and realistic, which is bliss, but sometimes the pace did crawl. Overall though, a piece that will make you think.

[آية · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don’t think I’ve read about a more stupid main character than Ada, and I have no sympathy for her at all

[tinynightingales · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to approach this review differently from most other reviews. I also need to begin by acknowledging that İnci Atrek is a very talented author and created characters that are extremely honest portrayals of humanity. The characters in "Holiday Country" are raw and flawed in ways that are powerful, familiar and visceral. I think the honesty of these characters is what caused me to have such a strong reaction to this book.

The protagonist of "Holiday Country" is a young woman Ada who has a very complex relationship to Turkey, her mother's home country, and her place within Turkey and her identity as a Turkish-America. She spends each summer living with her mother, and grandmother, in a small bungalow by the sea where she spends herself torn between summer Ada and American Ada. She never feels like she (or even her mother tbh) can fully fit in, and she is resentful for it towards anyone close enough to feel her ire. So resentful in fact, that she is emotionally vengeful towards anything that makes her feel out of place, including her mother. The way Ada regards her mother is so despicable, and she spends so much of the narration criticizing her mother's decisions, lost beauty, Turkish, English, relationship with her own mother, really anything Ada can observe of her mother is fodder for further criticism.

I hated Ada for these qualities. I hated her for her vitriol and immaturity in the way she delt with everything in her life. She couldn't even handle not knowing a popular Turkish song without throwing a several day long fit - not joking. No matter how much Ada bothered me however, I can acknowledge that my reaction to the protagonist is further proof of İnci Atrek excellent character building.

As a daughter of immigrants to the US myself, I picked up this book thinking I may be able to relate to Ada, and evidently I cannot - at all. I do think that the feelings of dual-isolation that comes with dual-citizenship is realistic and I commend the candor that goes into crafting a character such as this one. Despite hating every second of this book, it is so well written that I can't help but give it 4 stars. It's a great book.

Upon reflection, my reaction to this story reminds me very much of my reaction to reading "the Joy Luck Club" as a young teen. It explores the themes of immigration, intergenerational cultural dissonance, complexities of the grandmother to mother to daughter relationships, and womanhood is a similar fashion. It holds a mirror up to some of the ugliest parts of each of these themes that I believe could be extremely cathartic for some readers. I may even recommend it to my own mother and sister- hell maybe they'll find it as insightful and as reprehensible as I did.

I received this audiobook as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley, İnci Atrek, and Macmillan Audio for the opportunity to review this book.

[Laura Hundley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holiday Country
Written By Inci Atrek
Published By Flatiron Books
Release Date January 09, 2024

This is a well written multi generational novel that takes the reader to the Turkish coast where we learn all about the customs there and the the beautiful scenery. The story plays out as we get to know 19 yr old Ada and her struggles with growing up. Knowing that she will soon go off to college and will not be visiting her vacation spot for some time, she is saddened by some of the transitions that will ultimately occur.
Atrek’s way with words allows the reader to immerse themselves in a place that most will only dream of and her character development and build up is really what makeup’s this story unique. Ada’s father is Turkish and her mother American so there is a struggle to find where she belongs but her grandmother, who she has been visiting every summer wants to take the family back home with her to Turkey. The dynamics switch several times throughout the story yet the author maintains control the entire time with keeping the flow of the story going. The switches between Ada and her grandmother are brilliant.
My only issue is that there seems to be too much about Turkey and while it may seem beautiful, it took away from the story some and allowed it to drag slowly for awhile. That is why I would give it 4.5 stars.and I am rounding it to 5 for this purpose.
This is Atrek’s first novel and it is very impressive indeed. I hope that I get the chance to read more from this author.

Thank you to Goodreads for giving me a copy of this book to read In exchange for my unbiased Honest review.

[Mackenzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75 rounded up.

A huge thank you to Flatiron books for the ARC of this book.

The writing style was incredible placed in a city I’ve never read a book from before, Ayvalik, Turkey. Getting to read and understand the culture surrounding the book was an incredible journey. The only character who really had any dimension to them were the main character, Ada, and her mother. Even with the surrounding characters having less dimension it did not take away from the story.

The story itself was thought out with all endings being tied up. Ada realizes much about her mother and her mothers life and how she actually feels. Regardless of everything, Ada learns the truth, even if it’s hard to hear.

If you like learning about different cultures and getting to experience life through different perspectives and cultures this book is definitely for you.

And again thank you to Flatiron books for the ARC of Holiday Country.

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

A humid, and languid late summer read. Inci is a great writer—at times the work leans poetic. The book continuously beats us over the head with two main points though: the main character’s mother was never able to self-actualize thanks to an overbearing mother. And the complicated reality of being from a place you no longer live and not quite fitting in within either culture. Every few pages we were swimming in this over and over and over and over. Eventually it became tiresome.

I do love narratives about a woman rejecting perfection and the misadventures that ensue. But I found the main character silly. Which makes sense because we’re in the narrative
voice of a 19 year old chasing after her mom’s ex to prove she isn’t her?

I also appreciated the cultural references and food; I also liked the intergenerational lens of watching life through the perspectives of three related women. That was done well.

[Jennifer Koerten · Rating 2 out of 5]

“To really understand someone’s secret you have to watch them tell it.”

2 out of 5 stars

I wanted to like this book, I really did. But it just wasn’t for me. I found the main character, Ada, to be spoiled, unlikeable, and frankly a bit unhinged. There was very little that happened and what did was never really moving the plot forward. The book was slow and once things started moving forward they were essentially over before they began.

Maybe others will enjoy this book more than I did. It is more character driven and I would hesitate to recommend this book to anyone who prefers a plot driven novel.

[Elena Czubiak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holiday County is literary fiction with the dreamy setting of a beach read. The writing is beautiful, fun and clever, and transports you to a small Turkish beach town where 19 year old Ada spends her summers. The story fully immerses you in the mind of a young adult ready to make her own decisions and her own mistakes.

I particularly loved the reflections on what it means to love a place and how to prove to yourself that you truly belong, even when you don't know every pop song on the radio and all your memories are bathed in summer sun ☀️ 

[Sarah Lindsey M · Rating 3 out of 5]

I felt like I was pushing myself to read- not because the writing wasn’t interesting - it certainly was detailed and made me feel present. But I did feel as if the main character was so… selfish. Her fascination which became the plot center just seemed so unrealistic and childish, concerning really but kept you questioning how it couldn’t really work out in the end, and what does “work out” even mean?

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one had so much to recommend it- viscerally stunning Turkish seaside setting, twisted mother daughter grandmother dynamics, an intriguing romantic interest, a few heart-stoppingly awkward moments that I thought worked as sublime literary inventions—and a poetic conclusion that ties everything together so perfectly and lyrically. Loved it!

[Rach · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this copy as a giveaway prize from Flatiron Books.

Very beautifully written multi-generational story!