The Daughters: A Novel [Paperback]

An NPR Best Book of the Year In this novel, voice and music and history and storytelling and mythmaking and motherhood and protection of the self are in many ways the same: Living animals, changeable and complex, adaptive and perilous and endlessly powerful&. Here is one you should not miss, a gratifying feast in lush, lyrical, and full-throated form. Much of [A] lyrical debut novel about the perplexing riddle of inheritance. With prose as star-lit and heart-bending as the story itself, The journey through song and myth, the cost of motherhood and the price of passion... will resonate long after the last page. Celt's family saga steeped in folklore and vibrating with music is as much about the power of storytelling as the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters&. A haunting novel with real emotional depth, Celt's psychologically nuanced debut continues to resonate long after the last page has been turned. [D]azzling&. Bouncing back and forth between past and present, A beautifully written exploration of the myths and the realities that bind families together that will leave readers eagerly awaiting Celts next novel. Music and motherhood?thats what youll find at the core of [A] dazzling debut& Brimming with sad, delicious folklore and echoing with the voices of five generations of mothers and daughters in a family shaped by music as much as by tragedy, Celts debut is enchanting. A story libretto that commands attention from the opening scene. Celt has crafted a modern fairy tale that had me up from my chair in standing ovation. Gorgeous.