National Book Award winner, and one of Andrea Griffith's favorites from episode 28 of What Should I Read Next. From the publisher: "Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light."

From the author of A Little Life, this alternate-history novel spans Hawai’i and New York City, imagining what the world would look like 100 years apart at each jump, in 1893, 1993, and 2093. It spans time, geographical distance, but most importantly wealth and poverty, weakness and might, love and loneliness. At 720 pages, there’s plenty of space to explore all these issues and more. And it’s the perfect chunky novel to tuck in a vacation bag.