This may be the best book you’ll read in years.

In carefully crafted words, Dubus III both records and enacts his transcendence of the often brutal facts of his upbringing and our time..

In a conversational style that disguises its structure and solidity, Dubus’ sentences glide on a level pitch before seamlessly dovetailing into the poetically poignant..

Emotionally generous and beautifully crafted.

Although inevitable repetitions occur in pieces written over several decades, the collection melds into a touching memoir..

Dubus’s sinewy prose strengthens his probing meditations on the inextricable relationship between love and loss. Readers will be moved..