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I adored it. — Claire Lombardo Feels like watching a master painter at work. — Ann Napolitano I inhaled this book in a weekend. — Leslie Jamison Bug Hollow is set in the summer of California, during the 1970s. Sally Samuelson is eight years old and... Read More
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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

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I adored it. — Claire Lombardo

Feels like watching a master painter at work. — Ann Napolitano

I inhaled this book in a weekend. — Leslie Jamison

Bug Hollow is set in the summer of California, during the 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.

Over the next four decades, the family fractures and rebuilds, again and again. The story encompasses love affairs, illnesses, late-in-life marriages, and long-hidden secrets, illustrating how brief intimate connections and heart-shattering losses can reverberate through generations.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399636841

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Michelle Huneven is the author of five novels including Bug Hollow. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books and finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Beard Award for feature writing with recipes, and received her master's in fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches writing at University of California, Los Angeles.

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