Glad News of the Natural World

The hilarious and heartbreaking sequel to T.R. Pearson’s beloved bestseller, A Short History of a Small Place . Twenty years ago, T. R. Pearson’s A Short History of a Small Place was hailed as “an absolute stunner” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post ) and its hero, young Louis Benfield, was dubbed “a youth not as wry as Holden Caulfield, but certainly as observant, and with a bigger, even sadder heart” (Fran Schumer, The New York Times ). Now, older but not necessarily wiser, Louis Benfield