The Daughters: A Novel

"In this lush, finely wrought novel, a professional opera singer named Lulu has a child and loses both her voice and beloved grandmother in the same day. Certain that this has happened because of a curse that stalks the women in her lineage, she plumbs the depths of her past and her heritage to confront it. Equal parts feminist fairy tale and elegy, The Daughters is a gorgeous exploration of music, family history and motherhood"