"Beautiful, brainy, offbeat.Baldwin shows steadying compassion and literary flair in the dissection of miseries, identifying with equal compassion the dissatisfactions of a dead wife and the grief of a bewildered widower.Behold the irony of a specialist in memory loss whose memory of his own marriage is unreliable." - Entertainment Weekly , A- "Stunning.But the most surprising thing about You Lost Me There is Baldwin''s self-assured, subtle and unfailingly moving prose - this book does not read like the work of a young, first-time novelist. You Lost Me There is, finally, a wise book, the kind that eludes many authors twice Baldwin''s age. Words, of course, really can be lifelines, especially in the aftermath of loss. It''s not always easy to find beauty in pain, but that''s what Baldwin has done, and the result is affecting, profound and true.
" -NPR.com "In fiction as in life, you can''t save people from themselves. Although that never keeps anyone from trying, as Rosecrans Baldwin''s amiable first novel demonstrates." - The New York Times Book Review "Elegantly perceptive.Memory is a trickster, a scamp, a rogue. And, as Baldwin demonstrates in his novel, it can be a heartbreaker too." - The Chicago Tribune "[A] masterful study of love, loss, and self-discovery. Baldwin has truly found his footing in this book.
At turns revelatory, heartbreaking, and tender." - The Daily Beast "Witty, profound, and heartbreaking.easily one of my favorite books of the year." - LargeHeartedBoy.com "Intelligent and sweet.Grief is good in You Lost Me There." - Newsday "Baldwin has managed to take big themes-the notion of a couple''s shared history and the skewed, fickle nature of memory-and cast them into a funny, sad, insightful narrative.compelling.
" - Portland Press Herald "An impressive debut." - Time Out Chicago "Unrestrained yet elegant.Baldwin proves there can be such a thing as a cerebral author who writes with his heart." -BookPage.com "Baldwin''s manic debut novel delivers a capricious, poignant, yet oddly perceptive account of the quixotic nature of relationships and the fallacies of memory." - Booklist " You Lost Me There is a work of lucid literary art, roisterous wit, and close, wry knowledge of the vexed circuits of the human mind and heart." -Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned "Rosecrans Baldwin has written a gorgeously atmospheric novel about scientist Victor Aaron, who appears to be as craggy and cold as the Maine island where he lives. But Baldwin''s storytelling grace is so delicate that the reader never doubts the deep emotional ache in this man of intellect, the joy that co-exists with his grief, or the underground river of love so deep it perversely paralyzes him.
You Lost Me There,/I>is a smart, tender, and generous novel." -Lauren Groff, author of Monsters of Templetonand Delicate Edible Birds "You Lost Me Thereis a wise, antic, and often hilarious novel about grief. And also about love and marriage, remembering and forgetting, neuroscience and Bruce Willis. It''s full of knife-sharp dialogue and wonderful characters. This is a terrific debut that makes you yearn for the most unexpected things. I loved it." -Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collectorand About Grace "Rosecrans Baldwin has written a lovely novel exploring the fraught nature of love and memory. He deftly interweaves the science of how we remember with the experience of love, so that as the plot unfolds, we aren''t just learning about a marriage-we''re also learning about how an analytic brain grapples with questions of the heart.
" -Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientistand How We Decide.