We Begin at the End

We Begin at the EndWinner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel from the Crime Writers Association (UK) Winner for Best International Crime Fiction from Australian Crime Writers Association An Instant New York Times Bestseller A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finished it. Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times

and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins

If I can see through the illusions

She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of the most important tools in medicine

Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California

a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years

Not until she destroys him and the Aurora King

The first girl ever

driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library

Never one to overstay her welcome (or expect much from a man)

or Freckleface Strawberry

and she's a total pro at other people's tragedies

For an athlete