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Starred Review on May 1, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
New Zealand-born Jones is best known for his novel Mister Pip (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2007, made into a film starring Hugh Laurie in 2012). The author's first memoir is a meditation on the loneliness and willful forgetting of a family's history, inspired by the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. The city was built on swamplands, but its origins had long been forgotte...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
