Bug Hollow a novel

"A family novel that follows the Samuelson clan over four decades as they hurt and heal one another"--

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Main Author: Huneven, Michelle, 1953- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Penguin Press, 2025.
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Summary:"A family novel that follows the Samuelson clan over four decades as they hurt and heal one another"--
When Sally Samuelson was eight years old, her golden boy brother Ellis went missing the summer he graduated high school. Ellis finally turned up at the bucolic Bug Hollow, a last gasp of the beautiful Northern California counterculture in the seventies. He had found joy in the communal life there, but died in a freak accident weeks later. From that point, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis, especially after Julia, Ellis's girlfriend from Bug Hollow, shows up pregnant on their doorstep. Each Samuelson has sought their own solace: Sybil Samuelson pours herself into teaching and numbing her pain after the loss of her beloved son; her husband, Phil, had found respite in a love that developed while he was working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia; Katie, the high achieving middle Samuelson, comes home to try and make peace with her mother after a cancer diagnosis. And Sally has become the de facto caretaker to Eva, the child Ellis never knew.
Physical Description:274 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780593834879
0593834879
Author Notes:Michelle Huneven is the author of Round Rock , Jamesland , Blame , Off Course, and Search . Her books have been New York Times Notable Books and finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a James Beard Award, and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She received her master's in fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.