Day

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‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon‘A quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and learning to go on.

April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house – and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.

April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts – and his secret Instagram life – for company.

April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality – with what they’ve learned, what they’ve lost, and how they might go on.

From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life – how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely.

‘Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece … Read it and be changed’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C54VXXZ1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate (14 November 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1462 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 289 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0399591346

Reviewer: carilynp
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This story has something extra. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly what it is. Could be the eloquent descriptions and charming characters, but it’s much more than that. There is a depth to it that I think readers will relate to. For example, the author nails the pandemic with biting humor in just one sentence, which made me pause and smile about a not-so-pleasant period of time that now seems so long ago. Reaching the reader, making it relevant. As the title says, it takes place on one day. In three consecutive years.Dan and Isabel and their kids live in an apartment in Brooklyn, which they’ve recently outgrown. Dan is doing the stay-at-home dad thing while easing his way back into his former rock dude self, less for the love of music, more for the adulation he so misses. Isabel’s career as a photo editor is static, as a result, she’s checked out, spending time contemplating life while sitting on the stairs. They’re both obsessed with her gay, younger brother Robbie who lives upstairs in their attic, which they’ve asked him to vacate so their son Nathan can occupy it rather than share a room with his little sister Violet. Moving out is daunting as Robbie barely gets by on his teacher salary and he’s the glue that holds the family together. Robbie steals the show whether it’s grading essays or doling out fashion advice to his niece.When hurricane Chess blows in with her baby in tow for Robbie or Dan to care for because Garth, Dan’s younger brother and the child’s sperm donor dad, isn’t around to pick up the slack, somehow, the combo works. Until it doesn’t. But here’s the thing, I loved Robbie (and his fictional Instagram character) the most and I love Cunningham’s writing, that the story itself seems almost secondary.DAY is like a modern fairy tale with fluctuating family dynamics, how children learn to view the world. I thought it was an interesting take on life, a family facing a turning point and the toll that takes when suddenly, all the players need to spread their wings in different directions.

Reviewer: Steve
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The word Covid does not appear in this book but it a story, or several stories, of life in the time of Covid, covering two generations of one extended family over three days and three years.Cunningham’s prose is exquisite and his observation of people, seen by themselves and by those closest to them, is particularly acute because we do not, of course, see ourselves as others see us, save that in this book, and with these characters, we are given that privilege thanks to the author’s imagination and skill.One particularly clever device is that Robbie, a gay man on whom the book hinges, has created an Instagram storyline which is partly about him but also about someone who is a creature of his imagination. The two identities almost merge into each other and timelines go askew in ways which do not undermine an underlying insight into “real” life.

Reviewer: Giulia D.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Eccellente

Reviewer: stuart mcarthur
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: David Bowie said aging is about becoming who you really are.Extrapolating from this aging is about trying to solve the Chinese wooden puzzle of who we are.As young children the puzzle first presents. But then socialisation impedes it’s solving’s progress. To mask over aspects we discover in ourselves that we don’t like, that at getting in the way of making friends, later on partners, getting success, earning money, acquiring wealth, we make adjustments or add on behaviours that take us further from who we really are, not closer.With wisdom, and as these needs recede, the puzzle reappears but with the extra problem of unravelling all the socialisation add-ons. The need to uravel serves the ever-growing need to solve the puzzle of who we really are.This novel is about that. But with the Covid pandemic thrown in as either an opportunity to unravel or a threat to further entangle, as each character has two years of introversion thrust on them.Garth’s confusion over his love and his paternal powers get a boost from anagram holding his hair.Dan learns that’s true art must defy reason, but his corresponding unreasonable hopes of reunion with Isabel take him further from not closer to his truth.The first time Violet got a glimpse of who she really is was through the eyes of Robbie after donning the yellow dress, and with Robbie gone, she conjures his ghost in order to recreate the moment.Chess confronts her oversimplification of thinking as she foresees a troubled child without a present or reliable father figure.They all need each other to help solve their self-puzzles but the solving itself is solitary and separate and remote, emphasised by the dark loneliness suggested by the constraints of the pandemic, and embodied by the need to create a Wolfe figure through which to work at the puzzle when other avenues disappoint.

Reviewer: Diana
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Cunningham allows us to inhabit the minds and feelings of an unusual family, in three segments of a day, one year apart. Very moving, insightful, subtle, sad.

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