The Correspondent: A Novel Cover Type:Hardcover One of The Atlantic’s Great

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Joshua Luke Smith writes from the raw materials of his own ordinary life—toddler tuck-ins

old and unsteadily running

Pauline Baynes

The Correspondent: A Novel Cover Type:Hardcover One of The Atlantic’s GreatImagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which they will certainly never be, even if they remain for the rest of time dispersed across the earth like the fragile blown seeds of a dying dandelion, isnt there something wonderful in that, to think that