THE BOOK OF UNCONFORMITIES

When Hugh Raffless two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, he reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly so lid objects as anchors in a world unmoored, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. A moving, profound, and affirming meditation, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattans Lenape, and a huge Greenland...[Read more]