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Anthony Doerr is the author of All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION
“A beautiful and expansive novel. . . As I neared the end, I read more and more slowly, increasingly reluctant to leave this intricately imagined world behind.” Washington Post
“One of those novels that works its way into your very dreams.” Newsday
“This mesmerizing novel is pitch perfect . . . utterly unforgettable.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“A taut, gorgeously written odyssey of heartbreak and self-forgiveness.” Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes
“I loved this wonderful book–its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences.” Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane
“About Grace celebrates the blessings all around us, whether it’s the miracle of forgiveness by our loved ones, or the miracle of nature all around us.” Denver Post
“Truly beautiful. . . Doerr has a talent for painting vibrant, enchanting scenes.” San Francisco Chronicle
“About Grace is an extended meditation on the tides and eddies of life itself, spun out in sentences that never fail to thrill, amaze or edify.” Los Angeles Times
“There’s a rapture with nature expressed in prose that sings off the page; an infinitely subtle algebra of resonance and sympathy between minds, lives, objects, light, senses, weather.” New York Times
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