Volcanic, salty and sun-bleached, this is the Aegean the Stephanides family leaves behind. Its bright acid cuts through the book's long sweep of generations like a sea breeze.
Xinomavro is a grape of contradictions: tannic and floral, rustic and refined. It suits a novel about a self that refuses to be only one thing.
A family epic that travels from a burning Smyrna to Motown Detroit, told by a narrator whose body carries three generations of secrets. Funny and tender, it asks what we inherit and what we get to choose.
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