{"product_id":"the-second-coming-isbn-9780593471012","title":"The Second Coming","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCity on Fire, \u003c\/i\u003ean intimate epic that plunges us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, betrayal, and redemption \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Beautiful and daring.” —Nathan Hill, author of \u003ci\u003eWellness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Breathtaking.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of \u003ci\u003eOrphan Train\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen thirteen-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has long struggled to see beyond himself. But then a call from New York makes him fear his daughter’s in deeper trouble than anyone realizes. And believing he’s the only one who can save her, he decides to return home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins the journey that will, in time, push Jolie and Ethan—child and adult, apart and together, different yet the same—out past their depths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of yearning and revelation, \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change?“A gritty epic about a teen girl in trouble and her estranged father looking for a second chance.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Dazzling . . . Heartfelt . . . The dance of life and death between these two characters, father and child, is the heart and soul of this book, a complex, moving, insanely passionate, frightening, and weirdly hopeful story of ‘I can’t quit you’ . . . Hallberg is a smart and talented writer who likes to take risks.” \u003cb\u003e—Helen Schulman, \u003ci\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Hallberg’s novel takes its place in a lineage [with] Don DeLillo’s 1997 epic \u003ci\u003eUnderworld \u003c\/i\u003eand Jonathan Franzen’s densely woven family dramas . . . It’s a big, attractively baroque construction.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“The tale of two vivid, damaged characters . . . Full of brilliant writing . . . It races down avenues of sparkling prose . . . He treats us to one absolute cracker of an observation after another.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exuberantly inventive . . . The author’s spot-on wit remains playfully evident.” \u003cb\u003e—Thomas Mallon, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading Garth Risk Hallberg is a constant delightful surprise—you never know what’s coming next: a gorgeous turn of phrase, a perfect pop culture reference, a brilliant new observation, a jaw-dropping plot twist. And all of these gifts are on full display in \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming,\u003c\/i\u003e a story about a father bound up by his mistakes, a daughter bound up in her silence, and a family in need of saving. It’s a beautiful and daring novel, as inventive as it is breathtaking.” \u003cb\u003e—Nathan Hill, author of \u003ci\u003eWellness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hallberg’s a born wordsmith, his sentences limning his characters’ vulnerabilities, with visuals that tick a reader’s pulse.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hallberg writes from a place of keen emotional perception.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eInterview Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Genuinely moving . . . Hallberg’s writing has an infinite quality . . . This is richly pictorial writing that lends itself to novelistic world-building.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A blazing novel . . . Ottessa Moshfegh’s \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation \u003c\/i\u003ewrote contemporary addiction for the auto-satirically rich, and Barbara Kingsolver’s \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead \u003c\/i\u003ewrote it for the economically oppressed. \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel of the addicted middle . . . Words are not just a means to the story, but an end in themselves, ignited for the sake of seeing how they burn. And over 600 pages they burn wondrously.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Garth Risk Hallberg’s great gift is his ability to translate epic themes into intensely intimate, cumulatively powerful novels. Full of tension and emotion and populated by vivid characters and ideas, \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming\u003c\/i\u003e builds word by word to capture the intricacies of life while revealing its own breathtaking scope. This is a world you can fully enter and explore—one that resembles our own while expanding our understanding of who we are.” \u003cb\u003e—Christina Baker Kline, author of #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best seller\u003ci\u003e Orphan Train\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully alive . . . Verbal pleasures are to be had on every page.” \u003cb\u003e—Financial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At its core, this is a tale of the love that makes a family and how it does so.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A portrait of a daughter in crisis and a father in need of redemption, Garth Risk Hallberg’s \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful statement about the clarifying sense of purpose to be found in parental love, and how we demand more of ourselves for the sake of our children. Hallberg’s Ethan is a fascinating study in whether a certain kind of arrested American male, consumed early on by purposelessness and addiction, can in fact have a second act, even if his first is still, somehow, belatedly, being written, and not entirely by him.” \u003cb\u003e—Matthew Thomas, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Garth Risk Hallberg’s \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming\u003c\/i\u003e is a sprawling, aching, ultimately hopeful account of a father’s love for a daughter and a daughter’s defiance of that love when all too often it manifests as dysfunction. Hallberg deals with the dilemma of parental inheritance with a light touch, and the grace that finally descends on the Aspern clan is not only transformative but triumphant.” \u003cb\u003e—Joshua Ferris, author of \u003ci\u003eThen We Came to the End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tremendous storytelling.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ei news \u003c\/i\u003e(Best New Books, July)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bravura performance.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday \u003c\/i\u003e(Ireland)\u003c\/b\u003eGARTH RISK HALLBERG’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eCity on Fire,\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and international bestseller and was selected as one of the best books of 2015 by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal,\u003c\/i\u003e NPR, and \u003ci\u003eVogue.\u003c\/i\u003e It was the basis for the Apple TV+ series of the same name. 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