In this compelling debut collection, Sara R. Burnett writes hauntingly about origins — origins of myth & memory, language & country, earth & mothers — and an uncertain future. Weaving contemporary events like climate change, gun violence, and immigration with the personal context of raising a young daughter, her book is accessible, formally dexterous, and moving. Through her origin story as a Cuban immigrant’s daughter, her entry into motherhood, and the series she writes of Demeter and Persephone, she shows readers that to wonder and doubt, fear and and love where we are from and where we are going are enduring human traits.