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Lost and Wanted is a searing novel from one of America's most exciting writers about the sacred knottiness of female friendship, the forces which fuse us together and those which drive us apart.
Nell Freudenberger is the author of three previous works of fiction. She was selected for the New Yorker's 20 under 40 and Granta's Best of Young American Writers and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She writes regularly for the New York Times and the New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Endlessly rich . . . It is Freudenberger's willingness to accept
human contradictions here - and to lay them out with a combination
of calm rigour and rueful comedy - that so triumphantly makes Lost
and Wanted the real thing
*The Times*
Dazzling . . .[Freudenberger explores] the nature of ambition,
success and grief . . . brilliant
*Financial Times*
Freudenberger has a real eye for the subtle differences in how
people react to adversity, an ear for the way children talk, and an
artist's clear-sighted commitment to seeing the totality of her
characters
*Sunday Times*
The effect is beautiful . . . Reading it, I was moved by intimacies
near and far, real and imagined, lost and found in all the echoing
corners of the expanding universe
*New York Times*
This spooky mystery fuses nimbly explained science with a finely
calibrated meditation on grief and paths not taken
*Mail on Sunday*
Tender, sharply observed and marvellously rich
*Daily Mail*
Are we connected? Are we alone? Freudenberger's brilliant and
compassionate novel takes on the big questions of the universe and
proves, again, that she is one of America's greatest writers
*Andrew Sean Green, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Less'*
[A] stunning portrayal of grief . . . The integration of ideas from
physics sparks in the reader new ways of thinking about the nature
of time and existence as well as, on a less cosmic scale, about
human relationships . . .This is a beautiful and moving novel
*Publishers' Weekly*
Dazzling . . . [Freudenberger] dramatizes, through Helen, both the
dawning awareness that life doesn't always allow for second chances
and the great midlife consolation prize: a greater appreciation for
those chances - and people - one has been given.
*Washington Post*
With page-turning acceleration, Lost and Wanted is a piercing
meditation on the immutable truths that mourning calls into
question. Freudenberger [has a] gravity-defying gift
*O, the Oprah Magazine*
Deeply involving, substantial, suspenseful, and psychologically
lush . . . With daring, zest, insight, wit, and compassion, Lost
and Wanted gracefully and thrillingly bridges the divide between
science and art
*Booklist*
Before the full scope of the accomplishment has sunk in-the lucid,
compassionate portraits of a wide array of characters, the
meticulous hand with which Freudenberger paints their world-you'll
be beguiled, as I was, by Helen's narration, so full of humble
longing and deep, sweet ruefulness
*Jonathan Lethem, author of 'A Gambler's Anatomy'*
This tender, engaging story takes a physicist for its heroine, and
boldly bends the forces of the universe to the binding love between
friends, between partners, between parents and their children. It's
a literary and emotional adventure peopled by complex, sympathetic
characters, some of whom happen to do science as they navigate
their most important relationships
*Dava Sobel*
Gorgeous, brainy, and passionate. Lost and Wanted is the best kind
of big American novel: a majestic book that takes on nothing less
than the nature of the universe-literally-while probing that
similarly infinite mystery known as the human heart. Nell
Freudenberger's writing is fearless and profound, as it absolutely
must be in order to pull off this very modern ghost story that
unfolds in the life of an MIT physicist. Freudenberger is one of
our best novelists, and she's delivered a real powerhouse of a
novel
*Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk*
Like the finely calibrated tools of particle physics described in
its pages,NellFreudenberger's novel demonstrates an astonishing
sensitivity to the forces that move us all. Her rendering of
grief-with its shadings of denial, anger, longing, dark humor, and
magic-is nothing short of perfection
*Julie Orringer, author of 'The Invisible Bridge'*
An iridescent story of friendship. Lost and Wanted is an
extraordinary book, startling in its open curiosity and love
*Rivka Galchen, author of 'Atmospheric Disturbances'*
Intellectually dazzling and almost unbearably moving, Lost and
Wanted stayed with me long after I read it, its characters still
moving in my brain like free electrons. Probing the mysteries of
the physical universe and the equally mysterious nature of human
connection, Nell Freudenberger writes fearlessly and lyrically
about physics and grief; parenthood and friendship; the subtleties
of race and the seriousness of female ambition. I've read many
novels that make me think and some that made me cry, but few that
did both as powerfully as this one did
*Amy Waldman, author of 'The Submission'*
A great work of art treads the line between the ingenious and the
improbable. This is true of Nell Freudenberger's remarkable Lost
and Wanted. It somehow combines particle physics and paranormal
phenomena to present a lucid, humane and wryly comic view of the
way we live today. One reads the novel with pleasure and marvels at
Freudenberger's courage and intelligence
*David Bezmozgis, author of 'The Betrayers'*
Brimming with wit and intelligence and devoted to things that
matter: life, love, death, and the mysteries of the cosmos. Nell
Freudenberger is good at explaining physics, but her real genius is
in the depiction of relationships. Each one in the novel-whether
between adults, adults and children, or among children-is unique,
finely calibrated, and real. The title is a line from a poem by
W.H. Auden, which doesn't fully hit until the end of the book, when
it takes on heart-rending poignancy
*Kirkus*
I love novels that are obsessed with the "erotics of knowledge,"
books that understand how ideas are not the opposite of feelings
but rather their intense distillation. A. S. Byatt's "Possession,"
Ann Patchett's "State of Wonder," Barbara Kingsolver's recent
"Unsheltered," and Nell Freudenberger's forthcoming "Lost and
Wanted" all are marvelous depictions of the direct link between the
body's cravings and the passions of the mind
*New York Times*
Freudenberger's outstanding achievement is that Lost and Wanted is
also a moving story about down-to-earth issues like grief and
loneliness
*NPR*
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