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Lost & Found: A Memoir
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Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the story of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of the role that loss and discovery play in all of our lives. 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. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition, and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. Lost & Found is an enduring account of love in all its many forms from one of the great writers of our time.
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"While this book is classified as a memoir, it can also be read as a sweeping set of essays."
"Schulz lost her father, but by the end of Lost & Found, we understand that while his absence is devastating, shocking and total, she will continue to find gifts he left for her."
"Cynics might find the garrulousness with which she waxes lyrical about her adoration of C a tad overearnest."
"Hers is a generous, conversational voice; the effect is like an intoxicating Oxbridge tutorial."
"Schulz's reflections and insights often feel like the articulation of something dimly glimpsed and rarely acknowledged, but they spring out of what is, essentially, the story of a family bound by deep bonds of love ..."
"Discoursing knowledgeably and often with good humor on subjects that include etymology, poetry, natural history, psychology and more, Schulz displays a capacious intelligence matched only by her boundless curiosity and insight."
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