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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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"The book's second section describes Schulz's surprise at finding a life partner after years of cherishing a bookish kind of solitude."
"She explores the grief of loss and joy of finding through penetrating reflections ..."
"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."
"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."
"Lost & Found is a straightforward, elegantly written tribute to her father, Isaac Schulz ..."
"With quotations from a vast mine of sources --- including Roman mythology, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Plato and James Baldwin, to name just a few --- Schulz keeps her readers awake and alert to each small turn in this artfully grounded story ..."
"She's not writing for her own personal catharsis ..."
"Occasionally, all that awe grows tiresome, as when Schulz belabors her wonderment over the odds of chancing upon her partner ..."
"It's a moving meditation on grief and loss, but also a sparky celebration of joy, wonder and the miracle of love."
"a model of effective eulogy ..."
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