Lost & Found: A Memoir

Kathryn Schulz

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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 WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE People ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE 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.

Author
Kathryn Schulz
Edition published
January 11, 2022
Publication year
2022
My rating
3/5
Goodreads rating
4.11/5 from 9,819 ratings and 1,531 reviews
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December 14, 2022
Publisher
Random House
Edition
ebook · 241 pages
Language
English
Genres
Memoir, Nonfiction, Grief, LGBT, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Biography, Queer, Book Club, Philosophy
Awards
National Book Award · Nonfiction · nominee · 2022; Lambda Literary Award · Lesbian Memoir/Biography · winner · 2023; Goodreads Choice Award · Memoir & Autobiography · nominee · 2022; Goodreads Choice Award · Readers' Favorite Memoir & Autobiography · nominee · 2022
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