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Earphones Award Champion (AudioFile Newspaper) In this moving, lyrical, and finally uplifting assortment of essays, Michael Paterniti transforms a keen eyeball on the full range of individuals experience, introducing us with an unforgettable ensemble of people. Michael Paterniti is one of the very most original and empathic storytellers working today. His writing has been referred to as "humane, destructive, and beautiful" by Elizabeth Gilbert, "spellbinding" by Anthony Doerr, and "expansive and joyful" by George Saunders. In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the very first time in Love and DIFFERENT WAYS of Dying, he brings his full literary power to carry, pondering contentment and grief, storage area and the redemptive electric power of human connection. In the distant Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and encounters mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on the suicide bridge; in Dodge City, Kansas, he occupies house at a roadside hotel and considers, firsthand, the ways that the racial divide transforms neighbor against neighbor. In each instance Paterniti illuminates the full spectrum of individuals experience, introducing us to remarkable people and bygone legends, checking out the big ideas and feelings that move us. Paterniti reenacts François Mitterrand's last food in a rustic dining area in France and drives across America with Albert Einstein's brain in the trunk of his rentals car, floating in a Tupperware pot. He delves with heartbreaking details into the aftermath of any plane crash off of the coast of Nova Scotia, an earthquake in Haiti, and a tsunami in Japan - and, in searing swirls of words, unearths the complicated, hidden truths these occasions of extremity train us about our ability to endure and also to love. Michael Paterniti has put in the past 2 decades grappling with a few of our most powerful subjects and incomprehensible occasions, taking an unflinching perspective that looks for to edify as it resists easy answers.
