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Lost & Found
- Reflections on Grief, Gratitude and Happiness
- Narrated by: Kathryn Schulz
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction
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.
Critic reviews
"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)
"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 and Vesper Flights)
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- Elaine Roche
- 11-08-22
Nice story
Narration was excellent with a beautiful use of English. The story is averagely interesting but not a new theme- a regular story told very well.
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