<b>Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, <i>Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, </i>and <i>Newsday</i><br />A <i>Kirkus</i> Best Memoir of 2017<br />Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize </b><br /><br />From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of <i>The Lost: </i> a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece.<br /><br />When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate <i>Odyssey</i> seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his
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