Bug Hollow

For readers of Ann Patchett, Elizabeth Strout or Anne Tyler, Bug Hollow is a family saga in miniature, showing one complicated but loving family trying to make sense of the world

''I adored it'' Claire Lombardo
''Feels like watching a master painter at work'' Ann Napolitano
''I inhaled this book in a weekend'' Leslie Jamison

Summer, California, 1970s.

Sally Samuelson is eight years old and the course of her family''s life is about to change.

When her golden-boy brother Ellis, just graduated from high school, drives up the coast with his two best friends, he promises to be back in a week. But he does not return.

After Ellis''s unexpected death, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis again - especially after Julia, Ellis''s girlfriend, shows up pregnant on their doorstep.

And over the next four decades, the family fractures and rebuild, again and again - in a story that takes in love affairs, illnesses, late-in-life marriages and long-hidden secrets, and shows how brief intimate connections and heart-shattering losses can reverberate through generations.

• | Author: Michelle Huneven
• | Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• | Publication Date: Jun 19, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781399636834
• | ISBN-10: 1399636839