Told in alternating points of view, Everything Here Is Beautiful is, at its heart, the story of a young woman’s quest to find fulfillment and a life unconstrained by her illness. The bonds of sisterly devotion stretch across oceans-but what does it take to break them? Miranda leaves her own self-contained life in Switzerland to rescue her sister again-but only Lucia can decide whether she wants to be saved. Lucia lives life on a grand scale, until, inevitably, she crashes to earth. She moves her new family from the States to Ecuador and back again, but the bitter constant is that she is, in fact, mentally ill. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister.īut Lucia impetuously plows ahead, marrying a bighearted, older man only to leave him, suddenly, to have a baby with a young Latino immigrant. Two sisters-Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister’s protector Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak
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