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
