![]() ![]() Schulz is a wonderful writer, poetic and profound, and Lost & Found is a poignant, loving, wise, and comforting meditation on grief from both a personal and collective perspective. Want the Ebook for free Click HERE so I know where to. ![]() Loss, in other words, encompasses the “trivial and the consequential.” But we also find things, and Schulz considers that in fresh and evocative ways as well. The genius of Lost & Found is in its quotidian nature: in the acknowledgment that the end of a life is not only normal but the “necessary way of things,” as Schulz puts it. Riveting, heart-wrenching, and brilliant, here is the debut of a stunning talent. Loss can refer to many things of course, to something as simple, and affecting as the loss of a childhood toy, or to the loss of a wallet, or the loss of a presidential election. ![]() It is about the idea of loss in general (“of all the other things I had lost over time”) and the passage of time. But then her father died and she began using the common expressions that we all use, like “passed away” and “no longer with us.” Her deeply felt memoir, though, is more than a reflection on the loss of a parent. European history and the reality of war are woven seamlessly into the story. Schulz admits that she always disliked euphemisms for dying. Reviewed in the United States on MaVerified Purchase A story of lost and found love, war, friendship, innocence. Schulz begins her lovely memoir on loss by quoting the great poet Robert Lowell: “Yet why not say what happened?” he asked. ![]()
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