* An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of 2026 * A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2026 * A People Most Anticipated Book of 2026 * "This book speaks to my heart. With wit, wisdom, and deep empathy, Contrapposto asks all the hard questions that haunt and enliven a creative life--about art and beauty, about commerce and class, about the cost of passion and the price of success." --Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being "A book of profundity, humanity, and ravishing beauty--the only kind of book I want to read . " --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less "Dave Eggers' new novel Contrapposto begins with a simple question: What is art? The answer turns out to be a stunning high-wire act and, boy, does Eggers stick the landing. Better yet, the book is a love story that just won't quit." --Richard Russo, author of Somebody's Fool "I read Contrapposto and loved it! It spoke very deeply to me about love, and the artistic life, and the struggle for a sense of achievement or meaning and a purpose, and the magic of the life drawing class and those leaps in learning that application of technical skill with passion can achieve in a young artist. The idea that happiness is contentment rather than striving is very, very strong and beautiful in the book. It was heartbreaking, funny, and very effortlessly relatable.

" --Benedict Cumberbatch "Eggers has been a reliably inventive, big-swing storyteller with a knack for mixing heart, humor, and a little cultural side-eye. What begins as a grade-school act of vandalism becomes a 65-year entanglement of friendship, collaboration, and longing." -- Oprah Daily "The inimitable Dave Eggers returns with a book about life, love and art, featuring the classically trained artist's own work. So begins 50 years of dancing around the art world and each other as they search for love, meaning, loyalty and more." -- People.