New Earth

<p><strong>A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future from award-winning author Jess Row </strong></p><p>For fifteen years the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness they once seemed like a typical white Jewish clan from the Upper West Side. But in the early 2000s two events ruptured the relationships between them. First Naomi revealed to her children that her biological father was actually Black. In the aftermath college-age daughter Bering left home to become a radical peace activist in Palestine's West Bank where she was killed by an Israeli Army sniper.</p><p>Now in 2018 Winter Wilcox is getting married and her only demand is that her mother father and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more. After decades of neglecting personal and political wounds each remaining family member must face their fractured history and decide if they can ever reconcile.</p><p>Assembling a vast chorus of voices and ideas from across the globe Jess Row explodes the saga from within--blows the roof off so to speak to let in politics race theory and the narrative self-awareness that the form had seemed hell-bent on ignoring (Jonathan Lethem). <em>The New Earth </em>is a commanding investigation of our deep and impossible desire to undo the injustices we have both inflicted and been forced to endure. </p>