Any Kind of Known Tomorrow: A Novel

It's March 2020 and Hadley Parris is faltering. She's just been told she has multiple sclerosis, her teenage daughter is about to grow up and away, her opinionated mother wants to talk about the virus everyone's worried about, and Hadley's student needs a place to stay. Hadley's small Brooklyn apartment becomes a pressure cooker in which four women must navigate a rapidly unfolding pandemic, a bee invasion--and each other.Hadley, eager to be helpful, takes in her gifted student, Anna. Anna, who is living with the aftermath of family violence, would prefer to imagine a future in which she doesn't need anyone at all. Hadley's daughter, Isabelle, grieves an increasingly bleak climate outlook while feeling torn between her mother's needs and her mercurial Australian-born grandmother Aileen. Bees continue to emerge from the growing hive inside Hadley's kitchen wall. Meanwhile, Anna's Australian-born mother, Miranda, is in the hospital recovering from a near-fatal incident and hopes for forgiveness that may not be forthcoming.As a field hospital is erected in Central Park and New Yorkers pause each evening to cheer emergency responders, Hadley's discovery of genealogical ties dating back to the Salem witch trials forces her to confront family secrets and reckon with the legacy of her ancestors. Full of compassionate insight and incisive wit, Any Kind of Known Tomorrow is a provocative, sweeping meditation on immigration, family ties, and the ways that we must all face the future--together.