Lost & Found: A Memoir

"passages, where we learn about the person Isaac was...are rendered lovingly, making us miss him too."

"It's like taking a stroll with a highly erudite guide, but one with a piercing urgency in their voice."

"It would be tough to find another book that so effectively combines the panoply of emotions examined here or that leaves the reader with such a sense of quiet comfort and natural, human connectedness."

"Schulz begins with the specificity of her own experience, but the book soon becomes a discussion of the broader, existential reckoning we each must make with impermanence, both of our own existence, and that of the people we love ..."

"Hers is a generous, conversational voice; the effect is like an intoxicating Oxbridge tutorial."

"Being privy to her budding romance is a window into intense tenderness and deep gratitude ..."

"Elegant and thought-provoking, Schulz's book is as much a celebration of the circle of life as it is an elegant reminder to all that 'we are here to keep watch, not to keep.' A searchingly intelligent memoir and psychological meditation."

"It is about the idea of loss in general...and the passage of time ..."

"Instead, it is an effort to open grief up to a larger and deeper kind of engagement ..."

"Schulz strains to describe the state of bereavement, whose scudding emotions are presented as curious novelties but will be familiar to anyone who's been there ..."