No Book but the World - Hardcover

Cohen, Leah Hager

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594486034 ISBN 13: 9781594486036

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2014

Synopsis

?Lush, dark and unsettling, No Book but the World haunted me for days. With great skill, Leah Hager Cohen takes us through a twisty and resonant tale about the price of secrets, the burden of family, the remnants of childhood we never leave behind.” ?Megan Abbott, author of The End of Everything and Dare Me

At the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct ?free school,” Ava and her brother, Fred, shared a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhood?a world defined largely by their imaginations and each other’s presence. Everyone is aware of Fred’s oddness or vague impairment, but his parents’ fierce disapproval of labels keeps him free of evaluation or intervention, and constantly at Ava’s side.

Decades later, then, when Ava learns that her brother is being held in a county jail for a shocking crime, she is frantic to piece together what actually happened. A boy is dead. But could Fred really have done what he is accused of? As she is drawn deeper into the details of the crime, Ava becomes obsessed with learning the truth, convinced that she and she alone will be able to reach her brother and explain him?and his innocence?to the world.

Leah Hager Cohen brings her trademark intelligence to a psychologically gripping, richly ambiguous story that suggests we may ultimately understand one another best not with facts alone, but through our imaginations.

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Review

Praise for The Grief of Others:

'Leah Hager Cohen writes like a dream and effortlessly inhabits each of her characters. Lovers of family relationship literary fiction, such as Anne Tyler fans, need look no further

(Daily Mail)

Cohen's writing is wise and incredibly moving (The Times)

Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of the unexpected tendernesses of human connection (New York Times Book Review)

Lush, dark and unsettling, No Book But the World haunted me for days after finishing. With great skill, Leah Hager Cohen takes us through a twisty and resonant tale about the price of secrets, the burden of family, the remnants of childhood we never leave behind. (Megan Abbott, author of The Fever)

Cohen demonstrates a masterful talent, creating richly drawn characters and settings and supplying a satisfyingly shocking yet believable denouement. (People (US) 2014-04-03)

Cohen is good at evoking memories - sights, smells, sounds, atmospheres. Her language is vivid and nuanced ... This is a poignant and illuminating study of the bonds within families and the power of early experiences. (Orlando Bird FT 2014-03-29)

Cohen is an experienced and highly acclaimed writer. (Lesley McDowell Independent on Sunday 2014-03-30)

A piercing novel (New Yorker 2014-05-19)

Book Description

The highly-anticipated follow-up to the Orange Prize long-listed The Grief of Others

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1594486034
• ISBN 13: 9781594486036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304