In sparkling prose, this intimate, compassionate portrait of a logging community clinging to a vanishing way of life amid the perils of environmental degradation makes Damnation Spring an essential novel for our time.
“In her astonishingly accomplished first novel, Ash Davidson reminds us that we are never more profoundly shaped by our environment than when we destroy it. Nearly every page left me in awe.” —Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and a story. More on Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Congratulations to Megan Kate Nelson, finalist in History for The Three-Cornered War; Amy Stanley, finalist in Biography for Stranger in the Shogun’s City; and Mitchell S. Jackson, winner in Feature writing, for the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes!
