Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal - Literary Fiction Featured on PBS NewsHour Named by Good Morning America , New York Post , and Los Angeles Daily News as one of the Best Books of Spring 2023 A deeply moving novel about becoming—and unbecoming—our mothers, absorbing the past, and bursting into our own futures. Told from interwoven perspectives with lyrical prose, this poignant story explores addiction, artistic ambition, and the complex relationship between Viva and her mother Charlotte.