The Book of Illusions

From the bestselling author of Baumgartner comes “an emotional puzzle of one man’s broken heart that the author mends, page by ingenious page” ( Elle ). A man’s obsession with a silent-film star sent him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stu