Poignant, haunting, beautiful. In her debut novel, C Pam Zhang tells the story of an immigrant family and two newly orphaned siblings who are on the run in a reimagined, gold-rush-era American West. It’s a story about trying to belong, trying to locate yourself in history, and trying to understand what it means to be home. It’s a story about family secrets, the responsibilities that weigh us down and buoy us, and the choices people make when they don’t have any. And it’s also a story about our relationship to nature and what’s been edited out, rewritten, or stolen from one culture by another. It stuns. Read it with us for our first #goopbookclub. (Also finally added other books I’ve read and loved while at home—see stories.)