JRC Book Group: Lost and Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz

Join the engaging conversation with your JRC community. JRC’s Book Group meets on the second Sunday of every month, this month meeting is hybrid, both in-person at JRC and on Zoom.

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This month’s book is Lost and Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz.

Winner Of The Lambda Literary Award • Longlisted For The National Book Award • Finalist For The National Jewish Book Award • Longlisted For The Andrew Carnegie Medal

One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally met her future wife. But as the two of them began building a life together, Schulz’s beloved father—a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee—went into the hospital with a minor heart condition and never came out. Newly in love yet also newly bereft, Schulz was left contending simultaneously with wild joy and terrible grief.

Those twin experiences form the heart of Lost & Found, a profound meditation on the families that make us and the families we make. But Schulz’s book also explores how disappearance and discovery shape us all. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to sustaining wonder and gratitude even in the face of loss and grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, and humor about the connections between joy and sorrow—and between us all.