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ighteen months before Kathryn Schulz’s father died, she met the woman she would marry. In the essay-memoir LOST & FOUND (Picador), the writer and Pulitzer Prize winner “uses her life’s. “A tender, searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be human,” said author Helen Macdonald, who would know. If it’s a quarter as good as her terrific it will be a read-now and on all the best books lists come Christmas.

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