In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep.
"A tale with universal resonance. . . unsparing, deeply felt and searching." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Intensely attuned to small gestures of suffering and consolation, Nuland studies his family . . .with pained, humane attentiveness. A supremely gentle book." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Remarkable. . . . A tragic portrait that is both terrible and beautiful in its clarity." --Seattle Times