The Observable Universe Martina Mondadori SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

a masterpiece of clarity and personal insight

contempt and pity

This is not intended as a book of rules but rather a way of thinking about garden design and making sure it responds to the particularities of place

but she barely knows anyone

The Observable Universe Martina Mondadori SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEA moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyper connected world In the early 1990s, Heather McCalden lost her parents to AIDS. Orphaned by age ten, she was raised by her grandmother in Los Angeles, a fragmented city, also known as ground zero for the virus and its destruction. Years later, unmoored by grief, she begins exploring the history of HIV as a