Publisher Description
A boundary-leaping debut tracing a gifted young map maker's attempt to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping dinner table conversations normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T. S. from his family home just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls. There are some answers here on the road from Divide and some new questions, too. How does one map the delicate lessons learned about family or communicate the ebbs and flows of heartbreak, loneliness, and love?
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“Two predictions about The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet: readers are going to love it as much as I did, and few if any will have experienced anything like it. I’m flabbergasted by Reif Larsen’s talent, and I was warmed by his generosity. Here is a book that does the impossible: it combines Mark Twain, Thomas Pynchon, and Little Miss Sunshine. Good novels entertain; great ones come as a gift to the readers who are lucky enough to find them. This book is a treasure.”
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Stephen King
About Reif Larsen
Reif Larsen studied at Brown University and has taught at Columbia University, where he received his MFA in fiction. His first novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into twenty-seven languages. The novel was a Montana Honor book, a finalist for the IndieBound Award, and was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Larsen’s essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Tin House, the Millions, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Asymptote Journal, and the Believer.