Partita

FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR<br /><br />&#39;[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience&#39;&nbsp;NEW YORK TIMES, &#39;100 Best Books of the 21st Century&#39; (on&nbsp;Demon Copperhead)<br /><br />You&#39;ve taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another &#39;emotionally raw, riotously entertaining&#39; read as you meet Livia.<br /><br />A song without any answer in it? That&#39;s the sound of waiting.<br /><br />Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.<br /><br />So when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents.<br /><br />Then one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn&#39;t miss in the rear view:<br /><br />&#39;Who is that man?&#39;<br /><br />It is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.<br /><br />From one of the greatest writers alive comes Livia&#39;s story,&nbsp;Partita, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.