An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures SS_Gift_Guide "Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie

"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts

February 1963

and travel readers to prepare for a magnificent adventure

When her grandnephew Michael bursts into her life in what appears to be a drug-fueled frenzy

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures SS_Gift_Guide "Evok[es] the great Agatha ChristieNow in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only to love and to be