Bug Hollow

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New York Times Summer Reading Pick • One of 50 books TODAY can't wait to read in 2025 • Oprah Daily Best Summer Reads of 2025 • Boston Globe Best of Summer 2025 • One of LitHub's Novels to Read This Summer “Deeply satisfying…Feels like watching a master painter at work.” —Ann Napolitano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful A decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after the loss of their son Ellis When Sally Samuelson was eight years old, her golden boy brother Ellis went missing the summer he graduated high school. Ellis finally turned up at the bucolic Bug Hollow, a last gasp of the beautiful Northern California counterculture in the seventies. He had found joy in the communal life there, but died in a freak accident weeks later. From that point, the