Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. According to this worldview, the middle of life, far from a time to reset yourself, is the crux of human existence. And in Luiselli’s new novel, Beginning Middle End, it’s also where the messiest, most interesting, and most exciting parts of a story occur. Beginning Middle End, like all of her novels, goes without what its protagonist calls the ‘corset of plot.’ Beginning Middle End knows that the first and last words in its title are just necessities.