The Names: A Read with Jenna Pick

READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!   "Dazzling. . . The Names is startlingly joyful. . . Knapp tirelessly and beautifully replicates not just loss and grief but endless rebirth and delight." --The Washington Post   "Elegant. . . this is a wholly original work." --People Magazine "Book of the Week"   "A magnificent novel, thrumming with life in all its pain and precariousness, yet suffused with the glorious possibilities of love and redemption." --Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse   The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?   In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks what she'd like to call the child, Cora hesitates.