Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel J.C. Thompson Jon is disappointed when he

Jon is disappointed when he receives a zoo book full of blank pages on his birthday

I was just a pawn

and it's more than a year before the man is identified

comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom

Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel J.C. Thompson Jon is disappointed when heWinner of the Book of the Year (Fiction) at the British Book Awards Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." Ann Patchett The internationally bestselling, compulsively readable novelspiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tenderthat combines the