Named a Best Book of the Year by:The New York Times * New York Magazine * Lit Hub * TIME * O
the Oprah Magazine * Good Housekeeping Two generations of an American family come of age-one
before 9 11 one after-in this moving and original novel from the intellectually restless
uniquely funny (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell Zink Pam Daniel and Joe might be the
worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical
talent to make it they are waylaid by surprising arrivals-a daughter for Pam and Daniel a
solo hit single for Joe. As the '90s wane the three friends share in one another's successes
working together to elevate Joe's superstardom and raise baby Flora. On September 11 2001 the
city's unfathomable devastation coincides with a shattering personal loss for the trio. In the
aftermath Flora comes of age navigating a charged political landscape and discovering a love
of the natural world. Joining the ranks of those fighting for ecological conservation Flora
works to bridge the wide gap between powerful strategists and ordinary Americans becoming
entangled ever more intimately with her fellow activists along the way. And when the country
faces an astonishing new threat Flora's family will have no choice but to look to the
past-both to examine wounds that have never healed and to rediscover strengths they have long
forgotten. At once an elegiac takedown of today's political climate and a touching invocation
of humanity's goodness Doxology offers daring revelations about America's past and possible
future that could only come from Nell Zink one of the sharpest novelists of our time.
