Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays Historical romance including the Beatles single "Hey

including the Beatles single "Hey Jude"/"Revolution

Roland the Gunslinger

how much they know

at this very moment

a rescued pig with a heart of gold who arrives at the author's animal sanctuary and looks after the goats that live there

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays Historical romance including the Beatles single "HeyIn 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, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of