The Garden Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner

Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

he brings Rilke’s voice fully to life for the English-speaking reader

and the complex entanglements of family and friendship

proactive strategy for longevity

with nowhere else left to go

The Garden Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Winner of the 2023 PEN/FaulknerThe discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page turning and psychologically thrilling tale of women desperate to become mothers and the ways the female body has always been policed and manipulated, from the award winning author of The Illness Lesson. In 1948, Irene Willard, whos had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated