A Kirkus Best Book of the 21st CenturyThe acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece. —Richard RussoA ridiculously talented writer. —New York Times | Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters