Everything Lost Is Found Again
Four Seasons in Lesotho
Dzanc Books · Print & ebook · November 23, 2018
Funny and heartfelt, this amalgamation of memoir and essay collection tells the story of twenty months the author spent in Lesotho, the small, landlocked kingdom surrounded by South Africa.
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- Who it’s for
- A reflective, season-by-season nonfiction read with room for conversation and quiet devotion.
- Genres
- Travel Writing, Personal Memoirs, How Cultures Work
- Published
- Dzanc Books, November 23, 2018
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Funny and heartfelt, this amalgamation of memoir and essay collection tells the story of twenty months the author spent in Lesotho, the small, landlocked kingdom surrounded by South Africa. There he finds a spirit of joyful absurdity and resolve, surrounded by people who take strangers’ hands as they walk down the road, people who—with sweetest face—drop the dirtiest jokes in the southern hemisphere.
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But Lesotho is also a place where shepherds exact Old Testament retribution, where wounded pride incites murder and families are devastated by the AIDS epidemic. Driven by a spirit of openhearted cultural exchange in the style of Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country and Alexandra Fuller’s Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Will McGrath’s Everything Lost Is Found Again is a love-drunk ballad to Lesotho, infusing humor and heart into pop ethnography.
Seasonal Framing
A reflective, season-by-season nonfiction read with room for conversation and quiet devotion.
Come here for
- book-club conversation
- warm, playful travel writing
Expect
- memoir-meets-essay texture
- Lesotho through a literary lens
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 63% |
|---|---|
| Travel Writing | 63% |
| How Cultures Work | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Cultural Heritage Lives
- Black & African American Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- Authors
- Will McGrath
- Publisher
- Dzanc Books
- Published
- November 23, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Cultural Heritage Lives