Fonseca: A Novel

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Named a Must-Read Book for Summer by the LA Times, a Most-Anticipated Book of 2025 by Lit Hub and Publishers Weekly, and a best book of August by Town and Country and Foreign Policy • Library Journal Title to WatchThe story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for VisitingWinter 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald&’s husband is a struggling alcoholic, their literary journal is on the brink, and she is pregnant with their third child. When she receives a letter from two elderly sisters named Delaney, distant relations with a silver mine, who dangle the possibility of an inheritance, she recognizes it as a creative and practical lifeline.Jessica Francis Kane&’s brilliantly imagined Fonseca fictionalizes Penelope&’s real and momentous trip to northern Mexico in pursuit of this legacy. She leaves her two-year-old, Tina, with relatives and sails for New York with her six-year-old, Valpy, in tow. From there, mother and son take a bus all the way to . . . Fonseca.But when they arrive, nothing goes to plan. There are others vying for the Delaney money, and for three months, from Day of the Dead to Candlemas, Penelope must navigate a quixotic household and guide her impressionable son. More and more people frequent the house: an ambitious American couple, various local entrepreneurs and artists (including Edward Hopper and his wife, Jo), and finally a handsome stranger who claims he is a Delaney.With heart, humor, and a deep understanding of her subject that has characterized the range of her work her whole career, Kane (whose work &“could have been written by Jane Austen&’s great great-great-granddaughter&” —Oprah Daily) has written much more than an homage: Fonseca is an enthralling world of its own as well as a stunning fictionalization of a season in Fitzgerald&’s life.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593298862
Related ISBNs:
9780593298855, 9780593951569, 9780593951576
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Jessica Francis Kane
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Literature and Fiction
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