The Missing Piece BOTY_2025 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE•

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE• WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE AND THE RALPH WALDO EMERSON AWARD• FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARD

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The Missing Piece BOTY_2025 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE•From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment. It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told. This inventive and heartwarming book can be read on many levels, and Silverstein's iconic drawings and humor are sure to delight fans of