Helen Bonaparte

Miranda July meets Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins in this dreamy literary gem with a razor-sharp edge and "almost painterly" (BookLife), mesmeric prose. *BookLife 2024 Prize Finalist* Middle-aged, middling academic Helen Bonaparte has left her husband and children at home for a week-long Italian group tour with a bunch of strangers. Craving solitude, she intends to sulk in the corners of buses and museums for a week, indulging in great art but scowling the rest of the world away. Until, that is,