The Limits

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year From Mo&rsquo,orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia&rsquo,s imperiled coral reefs sends her teenage daughter to live with her ex-husband in New York. By the time fifteen-year-old Pia arrives at her father Stephen&rsquo,s luxury apartment in Manhattan and meets his new, younger wife, Kate, she has been shuttled between her parents&rsquo, disparate lives&mdash,her father&rsquo,s consuming work as a surgeon at an overwhelmed New York hospital, her mother&rsquo,s relentless drive against a ticking ecological clock&mdash,for most of her life. Fluent in French, intellectually precocious, moving between cultures with seeming ease, Pia arrives in New York poised for a rebellion, just as COVID sends her and her stepmother together into near total isolation. A New York City schoolteacher, Kate struggles to connect with a teenager whose capacity for destruction seems exceeded only by her privilege. Even as Kate fails to parent Pia&mdash,and questions her own ability to become a mother&mdash,one of her sixteen-year-old students is already caring for a toddler full time. Athyna&rsquo,s love for her nephew, Marcus, is a burden that becomes heavier as she struggles
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