No Book But the World - Hardcover

Cohen, Leah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846689708 ISBN 13: 9781846689703

Publisher: Clerkenwell Press, 2014

Synopsis

A young boy goes missing. The accused is a loner and outsider. When Ava Manseau learns that the suspect is actually her brother, Fred, she is compelled to piece together what actually happened, convinced that she alone will be able to explain him and his innocence. Fred has always been different: certainly impaired, never evaluated. The siblings grew up under seemingly idyllic circumstances, free of formal education and constraint in a family that rejected labels and diagnoses.

Now brother and sister have grown apart, their parents are gone - the boy is dead and Fred is in jail. Ava is forced to wonder: who is truly responsible for this turn of events? And is it her job to save him?

Hager Cohen brings her trademark wisdom and grace, depth of feeling and insight to an enthralling and morally ambiguous story. Perhaps, she suggests, in our ongoing struggle to comprehend one another, our imaginations can be more useful than facts.

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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: Clerkenwell Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1846689708
• ISBN 13: 9781846689703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320