An enduring 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 Our lives do indeed deserve and reward
the kind of honest gentle brilliant scrutiny Schulz brings to bear on her own life. The book
is profound and beautiful.-Marilynne Robinson author of Housekeeping and Gilead ONE OF THE
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-Oprah Daily The Washington Post Vogue Los Angeles Times The
Philadelphia Inquirer BuzzFeed Esquire Chicago Review of Books Town & Country Electric Lit
The Millions Lambda Literary The Rumpus Lit Hub The Week Kirkus Reviews 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.
