In Andrew Pippos’ successful epic migrant family saga, Lucky’s (2020), the characters were often larger than life and violence never far from the picture. His new novel, The Transformations, takes a psychologically darker, slower and more internal trajectory across a narrative that encompasses the online transformation of newspapers and journalism during the last decade, but goes much further.
The novel pursues transformations consequent upon divorce, parenting a teenager, recovery from childhood sexual abuse, struggles with alcoholism, emerging queer identity, managing the complexities of an open marriage, workplace romances and generational change among the wealthy.
