The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser

About The Life to Come

Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka, The daily experience to Come is about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as nations. Driven by a vivid cast of personalities, it delves into necessary emigration, the art of fiction, and ethnic and class conflict. Pippa is an Australian writer who longs for the success of her novelist teacher and eventually comes to fear that she “missed everything important.” In Paris, Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka, but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time and can’t commit to his trusting girlfriend, Cassie. Sri Lankan Christabel, who is generously offered a passage to Sydney by Bunty, an old acquaintance, endures her dull job and envisions a brighter future that “rose, glittered, and sank back,” while she neglects the affection close at hand. The stand-alone yet connected worlds of The daily experience to Come offer meditations on intimacy, loneliness, and our flawed perception of reality. Enormously emotional, gorgeously observant of physical detail, and often very funny, this new novel by Michelle de Kretser reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform and distort the present. It is teeming with daily experience and earned wisdom—exhilaratingly contemporary, with the feel of a timeless.

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