From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost
comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges
across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father
and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the
help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them.
Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of
violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes
us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and
eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves
back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters
trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past.