In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Its message? Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work. Decades later, Annie Sawyer...

"María Reig, la nueva voz de la narrativa española, regresa con su segunda novela... Años 70, Caroline, una estudiante de doctorado, investiga sobre las implicaciones de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en los colegios internacionales suizos. Su tesón la llevará a conocer a una antigua alumna del internado femenino Santa Úrsula. Pero la señora Geiger tiene mucho que esconder y Caroline deberá encajar las piezas del rompecabezas mientras descubre...

"A coming-of-age story set during the rising tide of World War II, How to Find Your Way in the Dark follows Sheldon Horowitz from his humble start in a cabin in rural Massachusetts, through the trauma of his father's murder and the murky experience of assimilation in Hartford, Connecticut, to the birth of stand-up comedy in the Catskills -- all while he and his friends are beset by anti-Semitic neighbors, employers, and criminals"--