Names: A Read with Jenna Pick

READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY "Dazzling...The Names is startlingly joyful and paced like a thriller...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 "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... Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are thre