From the New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire, an intimate epic that plunges us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, betrayal, and redemption

Beautiful and daring. Nathan Hill, author of Wellness

Breathtaking. Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train

When thirteen-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A convicted felon and recovering addict, Ethan has long struggled to see beyond himself. But then a call from New York makes him fear his daughters in deeper trouble than anyone realizes. And believing hes the only one who can save her, he decides to return home.

So begins the journey that will, in time, push Jolie and Ethanchild and adult, apart and together, different yet the sameout past their depths.

Full of yearning and revelation, The Second Coming is at once an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change?