Life, and Death, and Giants

Life, and Death, and GiantsA heart too big for this world. A life that changes everyone. "Life, and Death, and Giants is an intriguing and alluring novel from beginning to end. The events are startling, sad, amusing, invigorating, and informative. Reading it is like meeting a family that you never knew existed and becoming close friends in a few weeks. Highly recommended." Jane Smiley, author of Lucky and A Thousand Acres Gabriel Fisher was born an orphan, weighing eighteen

"As a heartless killing machine

when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble

What really matters is how far you would go to protect them

When the owner asks Lauren and Asa to propose something (anything

Until she hears it

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time

Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge

Sashi accepts K’s invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers

He wants her to stay in his safety bunker until the breach is resolved

band together in their desperate desire for revenge

That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot

plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family