Since I’m deep in the process of writing my own memoir, I was awed by Schulz’s brilliant structure.
She organized her book into three parts: "Lost," which explores the comic, frustrating, heartbreaking experience of losing things, grounded in her account of her father’s death; "Found" examines the experience of discovery, from new ideas to new planets, grounded in her story of falling in love; and finally, "And," which illustrates the way these events happen in conjunction and imply the inevitable: life immerses us in grief and suffering, beauty and grandeur all at once.
'Extraordinary . . . a profound and beautiful book . . . a moving meditation on grief and loss, but also a sparky celebration of joy, wonder and the miracle of love . . . Witty, wise, beautifully structured and written in clear, singing prose' - Sunday Times
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the stories of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of how all our lives are shaped by loss and discovery - from…
In the presence of truly beautiful writing, like Cunningham’s, a kind of magic vibrates off the page. I deliberately slowed down my reading, as I would savor an artisanal chocolate truffle, letting the complicated sweetness linger lest I devoured this book too quickly.
Cunningham’s otherworldly command of language makes him deft at giving voice to events I often struggle to understand. The book gave necessary meaning, and even promise, to my experience, and our collective experience, of the COVID pandemic.
'Unsparing and tender' Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn
'A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon
'A quietly stunning achievement' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on.
April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit…
This book reminds me of Anthony Trollope. It’s a grand, ambitious novel, rich with social and psychological insights, earnest and sly, a portrait of a tightly knit community in Maine made up of artfully drawn characters.
Agnes, the novel’s driving force, is prickly, solitary, and passionately opinionated, a famous children’s book writer with a secret identity, my favorite kind of protagonist. Agnes’s dearest friend, Polly, is a people-pleaser coming to terms with a decades-long marriage in which she devotedly propped up her husband while squelching her own considerable intellect.
These women, their friendship, and their community remained with me long after I read the last page.
The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century.
Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy-to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders…
In 1945, Dr. Hannah Weiss, an Austrian-Jewish physicist, is removed from her essential work with the Critical Assemblies Team at the Los Alamos National Laboratories and is taken for interrogation. Major Jack Delaney, a rising star in the shadowy world of military intelligence, is convinced that someone in the Top Secret Manhattan Project is a spy; the mysterious female scientist soon becomes his primary suspect.
As Jack questions Hannah about her involvement with the infamous Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and her friendly relationships with high-ranking members of the Nazi party, he slowly becomes seduced by her. Is Hannah a spy, or is she protecting a secret? When the truth about her life in Berlin is exposed, Hannah must choose between two lovers and two versions of history.
