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<p><b>FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION<br><br>An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from “one of our culture’s preeminent novelists” (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>)<br></b><br>Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where he teaches.<br><br>After a field trip to the desert yields nothing more than a colleague with a tenure problem and a student with an unwelcome crush on him, Wells returns home to find his world crumbling. His daughter has lost her edge at chess, she has developed mysterious eye problems, and her memory has lost its grasp. Powerless in the face of his daughter’s slow deterioration, he finds a mysterious note asking for help tucked into the pocket of a jacket he’s ordered off eBay. Desperate for someone to save, he sets off to New Mexico in secret on a quixotic rescue mission.<br><br>A deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief will d

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Author

Everett, Percival

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644451205

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (503 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14