Lost & found : a memoir / Kathryn Schulz.

Lost -- Found -- And.

Eighteen months before her beloved father died, Pulitzer-prize-winning author Kathryn Schulz met Casey, the woman who would become her wife. Lost & Found weaves together their love story with the story of losing Kathryn's father in a brilliant exploration of how all our lives are shaped by loss and discovery-- from the maddening disappearance of every day objects to the sweeping devastations of war, pandemic, and natural disaster; from finding new planets to falling in love. Three very different families form the heart of the book, which is organized into three parts: "Lost," which explores the sometimes frustrating, sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking experience of losing things, grounded in Kathryn's account of her father's death; "Found," which examines the experience of discovery, grounded in her story of falling in love; and finally, "And," which contends with the way these events happen in conjunction and imply the inevitable: Life keeps going on, not only around us but beyond us and after us. Kathryn Schulz has the ability to measure the depth and breadth of human experience with unusual exactness and then to articulate the things all of us have felt but have been unable to put into language. Lost & Found is a work of philosophical interrogation as well as a story about life, death, and the discovery of one great love just as she is losing another.