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Book SynopsisThe last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry. - Marlon James, Elle
From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Overstory and the Oprah''s Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers''s magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely giftedand dividedfamily, set against the backdrop of postwar America.
On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, andagainst all odds and their better judgmentthey marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, whose vo
