" Lost & Found is the most daring of books: a memoir by a happy person. "Kathryn Schulz has created a masterpiece of metaphysical insight, at once richly lyrical and piercingly specific." -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree "An unfolding astonishment to read." -Alison Bechdel, author of The Secret to Human Strength and Fun Home Lewis and the intellectual force of Susan Sontag, Lost & Found is an uncommon book about common experiences. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering-a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief.Ī staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Kathryn Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition, and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. But Schulz is also attentive to other, more universal kinds of conjunction: how private happiness can coexist with global catastrophe, how we get irritated with those we adore, how love and loss are themselves unavoidably inseparable.
Three very different American families form the heart of Lost & Found the one that made Schulz's father, a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee the one that made her partner, an equally brilliant farmer's daughter and devout Christian and the one she herself makes through marriage. 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 the maddening disappearance of everyday objects to the sweeping devastations of war, pandemic, and natural disaster from finding new planets to falling in love. I emerged feeling as if the world around me had been made anew."-Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk and Vesper FlightsĮighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry.
I wept at it, laughed with it, was entirely fascinated by it. "An extraordinary gift of a book, a tender, searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be human. An enduring account of love and loss from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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