The Alternatives Adaptations & Pastiche "All at once a meditation

"All at once a meditation on motherhood

she was married and had her first child

she must first confront the perplexing details of her husband's death on the distant Caribbean island of St

a country whose dark castles hold dreadful secrets

the opium addiction that holds her like a vice

The Alternatives Adaptations & Pastiche "All at once a meditation"A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can't wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force." New York Times Book Review "A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty." Hernan Diaz From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive talent,"