Lessons: A novel Chicago and historically illuminating memoir

and historically illuminating memoir

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR)

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finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand

and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever

Lessons: A novel Chicago and historically illuminating memoirNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ From the best selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Vogue The New Yorker