Paul Harding, October 4




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Summary: Moving back and forth through time, from memories of his daughter to the intolerable present, Harding creates a devastating portrait of a father as he descends utterly into his grief. "Drawing upon the same New England landscape and family as his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut, "Tinkers," Harding deftly captures loss and its consequences in this gorgeous and haunting follow-up. ["Enon" is] an elegiac portrait of a severed family and the town of Enon itself..." - Publishers Weekly starred review In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Harding has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. He was a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Harvard University and Grinnell College.