An exquisite debut novel that brilliantly captures the lives
and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague
It’s October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas.
He’s arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia’s
revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow.
He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and
capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a
vibrant, searching sense of possibility. As the men and
women Jacob meets begin to fall in love with one another, no
one turns out to be quite the same as the idea Jacob has of
them—including Jacob himself.
Necessary Errors is the long-awaited first novel
from literary critic and journalist Caleb Crain. Shimmering
and expansive, Crain’s prose richly captures the turbulent
feelings and discoveries of youth as it stretches toward
adulthood—the chance encounters that grow into lasting,
unforgettable experiences and the surprises of our first
ventures into a foreign world—and the treasure of living in
Prague during an era of historic change.
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