'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
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 the maddening
disappearance of everyday objects to the sweeping devastations of
war, pandemic, and natural disaster; from finding new planets to
falling in love. 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. 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. 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, Kathryn Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition,
and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. Crafted
with the emotional clarity of C. S. Lewis and the intellectual
force of Susan Sontag, Lost & Found is an uncommon book about
common experiences. 'An extraordinary gift of a book, a tender,
searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be
human. I wept at it, laughed with it, was entirely fascinated by
it. I emerged feeling a little as if the world around me had been
made anew.' - Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk
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