NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A "profound
and beautiful" (Marilynne Robinson) account of joy and sorrow from one
of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker's Kathryn Schulz,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"I will stake my reputation on you being blown away by Lost &
Found."--Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Bird by Bird
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL
JEWISH BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD -
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: People
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Oprah Daily, The
Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Esquire, Vulture, She Reads, Book
Riot, Publishers Weekly
One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and
fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she
was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally met her
future wife. But as the two of them began building a life together,
Schulz's beloved father--a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish
refugee--went into the hospital with a minor heart condition and never
came out. Newly in love yet also newly bereft, Schulz was left
contending simultaneously with wild joy and terrible grief.
Those twin experiences form the heart of Lost & Found, a profound
meditation on the families that make us and the families we make. But
Schulz's book also explores how disappearance and discovery shape us
all. On average, we each lose two hundred thousand objects over our
lifetime, and Schulz brilliantly illuminates the relationship between
those everyday losses and our most devastating ones. Likewise, she
explores the importance of seeking, whether for ancient ruins or new
ideas, friends, faith, meaning, or love. The resulting book is part
memoir, part guidebook to sustaining wonder and gratitude even in the
face of loss and grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of
the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, and humor
about the connections between joy and sorrow--and between us all.
