Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and NewsdayA Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford PrizeFrom award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author o...

Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embr...

Pub Date: 2013-11-12 Pages: 688 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins In this rich and riveting narrative. a writers search for the truth behind his familys tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic-part memo...