The All-Inclusive ManCave Book Club - "About Grace," by Anthony Doerr

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# About Grace by Anthony Doerr

The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.

David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen—a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.

On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.

Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.

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2018
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Line Becomes a River by Cantu NF
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Towles F

2019
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The Most Dangerous Man in America by Minutaglio NF
AI Superpowers by Lee NF
Anne Frank: The Untold Story by Wijk NF
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse F
A Case of Need by Crichton F
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2020
Kinds of Winter by Olesen NF
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Flamenco Academy by Bird F
The Emerald Mile by Fedarko NF
Desert Solitaire by Abbey F
Horseman Passby by McMurtry F
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West with the Night by Markham NF
Flags of Our Fathers by Bradley NF

2021
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China in 10 Words NF
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2034 F
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends NF
Bad Monkey F
Noah's Compass F
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2022
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The Land of Little Rain NF
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2025
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