Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write

''An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing'' Susie Boyt, Financial Times''A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to liv ...

''An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing'' Susie Boyt, Financial Times''A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live'' Garth GreenwellIn twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro,