Bright Dead Things: Poems Binding:Paperback a thematic response to The

a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr

class and grief--a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led

Original and compelling

Reflecting on the presidency

Bright Dead Things: Poems Binding:Paperback a thematic response to TheFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and