Private Rites A Novel

Julia Armfield

eBook - 2024

A NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice!From the BELOVED, AWARD-WINNING author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world"One of my FAVORITE NOVELS of the past few years." —Jeff VanderMeer, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of AnnihilationIt's been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their... father's most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.The sisters are more... more