{"product_id":"everything-lost-is-found-again-four-seasons-in-lesotho-9781945814624","title":"Everything Lost Is Found Again: Four Seasons in Lesotho","description":"Funny and heartfelt, this amalgamation of memoir and essay collection tells the story of twenty months the author spent in Lesotho, the small, landlocked kingdom surrounded by South Africa. There he finds a spirit of joyful absurdity and resolve, surrounded by people who take strangers' hands as they walk down the road, people who--with sweetest face--drop the dirtiest jokes in the southern hemisphere. But Lesotho is also a place where shepherds exact Old Testament retribution, where wounded pride incites murder and families are devastated by the AIDS epidemic.\u003cbr\u003e Driven by a spirit of openhearted cultural exchange in the style of Bill Bryson's \u003ci\u003eIn a Sunburned Country\u003c\/i\u003e and Alexandra Fuller's \u003ci\u003eCocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness\u003c\/i\u003e, Will McGrath's \u003ci\u003eEverything Lost Is Found Again\u003c\/i\u003e is a love-drunk ballad to Lesotho, infusing humor and heart into pop ethnography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcGrath, Will:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Will McGrath has worked as a reporter, homeless shelter caseworker, public radio producer, UPS truck loader, Burger King mayo-applicator, ghostwriter, and ghosteditor, in slightly different order. He spent twenty months living in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho--the subject of his forthcoming book, Everything Lost is Found Again (Dzanc Books), which won the Disquiet Open Borders Book Prize in 2017. He has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Foreign Affairs, Guernica, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRoads \u0026amp; Kingdoms\u003c\/i\u003e, among other magazines and journals. His writing has won nonfiction awards including the 2014 Felice Buckvar Prize and has been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, and Japanese.","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50507081384210,"sku":"9781945814624","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4d856287-a611-463c-9d7c-39c471183cc5.jpg?v=1730857049","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everything-lost-is-found-again-four-seasons-in-lesotho-9781945814624","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}