The book - mary ruefle

Following the acclaimed Dunce , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefles latest prose publication The Book .

True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefles legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly ) the patron saint of childhood and the everyday.

With the same curiosity found in Madness, Rack, and Honey and My Private Property , Ruefles prose here feels both omniscient and especially intimate.

It seems I believe in a bygone world though I no longer live there, she writes.

Will I continue to read about all that is dusty? In the spirit of friendship, Ruefle generously invites us to query ourselves as readers and thinkers in a world that will eventually endure without us.