Stoner by John Williams Format:Paperback A young escape artist and

A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin

stargazing

Beeler peppers in down-to-earth advice on artistic experimentation and fascinating stories about the historical and personal connections between humans and nature

a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune

In this wonderfully inventive

Stoner by John Williams Format:Paperback A young escape artist andWilliam Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholars life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a proper family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his