The Hairdresser’s SonInternational Dublin Literary Awardwinning Gerbrand Bakker gives voice to the visceral power of family ties in a novel brimming with Knausgaardian detail When his wife tells him she is pregnant, Cornelis packs his bags and boards a planea day later he is dead. Now grown, Simon roams the barbershop his father left him, honing razors and polishing mirrors in a shop marked FERM. He sees his customers one by one, massaging scalps and shaving throats in an

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A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays