Memoirs of a Polar Bear SOHO PRESS Of his six children

Of his six children

creasing and fraying on insides of covers

and The Crisis of the European Mind is by common consent his masterwork

Adaptability

A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides -- the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl

Memoirs of a Polar Bear SOHO PRESS Of his six childrenA bear, born and raised in captivity, is devastated by the loss of his keeper; another finds herself performing in the circus; a third sits down one day and pens a memoir which becomes an international sensation, and causes her to flee her home. Through the stories of these three bears, Tawada reflects on our own humanity, the ways in which we belong to one another and the ways in which we are formed. Delicate and surreal, Memoirs of a Polar Bear