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Penguin
August 2013
On Sale: August 16, 2013
480 pages
ISBN: 014312241X
EAN: 9780143122418
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Fiction Family Life
An exquisite debut novel that brilliantly captures the lives and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague Itβs October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. Heβs arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakiaβs 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 themβincluding Jacob himself. Necessary Errors is the long-awaited first novel from literary critic and journalist Caleb Crain. Shimmering and expansive, Crainβs prose richly captures the turbulent feelings and discoveries of youth as it stretches toward adulthoodβthe chance encounters that grow into lasting, unforgettable experiences and the surprises of our first ventures into a foreign worldβand the treasure of living in Prague during an era of historic change.
 Media BuzzOn Point - January 30, 2013
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