by
Sybille Bedford, Daniel Mendelsohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian...