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An NPR 2023 Books We Love Pick A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023 Chicago Public Library MustRead Books of 2023 Seattle Public Library Staff Favorites of 2023 Nashville Public Library Top Ten Books of 2023A startlingly original, incantatory novel about marriage, mortality, and making art.In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melvilles impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of MobyDick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth Shaw, she becomes increasingly obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt. Her preoccupation both deepens and expands, and her days work extends outward to an orbiting cast of Melvillean questers and fanatics, as well as to biographers and writersamong them Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowellwhose lives resonate with Melvilles. As she pulls these distant figures close, her quarantine quest ultimately becomes a midlife reckoning with her own marriage and ambition.Absorbing, charming, and intimate, Dayswork considers the blurry lines between life and literature, the slippage between what happens and what gets recorded, and the ways we locate ourselves in the lives of others. In wry, epigrammatic prose, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel have crafted an exquisite and daring novel.
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