Jacaranda: The Family Saga of Memory and Reconciliation

Released August 25, 2026, Jacaranda by Gaël Faye (Hogarth) is the eagerly awaited new novel from the author of Small Country, a family saga that follows the flowering and fracturing of a family across generations and continents. Where Small Country traced childhood through the shadow of genocide, Jacaranda follows what happens after: how families regrow in exile, what memory demands of the next generation, and whether a family can bloom again after its soil has been scorched.

The Memory Premium

Faye identifies the "memory premium" — the price children pay for histories their parents could not speak, and the price parents pay to keep their children whole. In a 2026 world of displacement, climate migration, and family separation, Jacaranda is an essential meditation on how families metabolize trauma: some memories are passed down like heirlooms, others like wounds — and only the families who learn to hold both can grow toward the light.

Lessons for Families:

• Regrowth After Rupture: How families rebuild identity after displacement and loss.
• The Next Generation's Load: Recognizing the histories children silently inherit — and choosing what to pass on.
• Blooming in Exile: The courage of building home in a new place while honoring the old.

The ChildCost Verdict

Jacaranda confirms Gaël Faye as one of the essential chroniclers of family and memory. It proves that the strongest families are the ones that learn to tell their whole story — the flowering and the scorching — and keep growing anyway.