Wait -- Gabriella Burnham, Hardcover

A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after their mother disappears in this alluring coming-of-age novel from the acclaimed author of It Is Wood, It Is Stone.

"A novel to remember."--Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different

Elise is out dancing the night before her college graduation when her younger sister, Sophie, calls to tell her that their mom is nowhere to be found. Elise leaves on the next flight back to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly four years.

The sisters soon learn that their mother was stopped by police on her way home from work and deported to São Paulo, Brazil. Intent on bringing her mother back, Elise stays and secures the same job she had in high school: monitoring endangered birds. Meanwhile, her best friend from college, Sheba--a gregarious socialite and heir to a famed children's toy company--reveals that she has inherited her grandfather's summer mansion on Nantucket. Elise's worlds collide as she confronts the emotional and material conditions that have fractured her family, as well as the life in Brazil that her mother has had to leave behind.

Told with penetrating insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Wait is a story about a family swimming against the social currents that erode bonds: housing precarity, immigration systems, and inherited wealth. But it is also a story about love, wit, and sisterhood, and how two sisters cling to each other in the midst of cataclysmic change, all the while dreaming about a better future.

Author: Gabriella Burnham
Publisher: One World
Published: 05/21/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780593596500

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2024
Booklist 04/01/2024 pg. 22
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2024

About the Author
Gabriella Burnham's debut novel, It Is Wood, It Is Stone, was named a best book of the year by Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Publishers Weekly, and Good Housekeeping. She holds an MFA in creative writing from St. Joseph's College and has been awarded fellowships to Yaddo and MacDowell, where she was named a Harris Center Fellow. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Harper's Bazaar. Burnham and her partner live in Brooklyn, New York, with their two rescue cats, Galleta and Franz.