The Imagined Life: A Novel Children's Mystery & Wonders Books Pulitzer Finalist for The Great

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avoid being contaminated by Area X itself

and one brave little chipmunk

finding her calling as a professional chef at her beloved restaurant tucked inside a 19th century gristmill

difficulty and joy of personhood

The Imagined Life: A Novel Children's Mystery & Wonders Books Pulitzer Finalist for The GreatFrom the award winning, internationally acclaimed writer, a taut, elegiac novel about a man trying to uncover the truth about the father who left him behind Steven Mills has reached a crossroads. His wife and son have left, and they may not return. Which leaves him determined to find out what happened to his own father, a brilliant, charismatic professor who disappeared in 1984 when Steve was twelve, on a wave of ignominy. As Steve drives up the coast