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Named a Top Ten Best Book of the Year by Time and People
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * New Yorker * Chicago Public Library * NPR * Oprah Daily * Philadelphia Enquirer
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Hero of This Book as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’d had this book for a while – I loved McCracken’s previous work - but hadn’t read it because my sister fell ill, and I didn’t feel that I could deal with a book that talked about death. And then my sister died, and I picked the book up, and I couldn’t have made a better choice.
Some books are just necessary, and this one, so perfectly pitched it moved from pain to aphorism to a hard-won and never flippant wit, was the right book at the right time.
I tweeted how much I loved it, and the author replied,…
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