Generosity by Richard Powers Groundswell Speaker 2024 tremulous child into a determined

tremulous child into a determined and distant woman

Yet she faces misfortune after misfortune when a mysterious force makes any suitor that she falls in love with meet an inexplicable – and unpleasant – end

believes her family to be lost – lost between the covers of a book

At once a reflection on America's past and present

Generosity by Richard Powers Groundswell Speaker 2024 tremulous child into a determined'Thrilling such wonderful storytelling' Observer 'Powers' acuity and satire are as sharp as ever' Sunday Times 'Smart, tender and wrenchingly anxious about the approaching era A bracingly intelligent fable about the choices that face us' Sunday Telegraph When Chicagoan Russell Stone begins teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he meets Thassadit Amzwar, a young Algerian woman with a radiant presence. But he is disturbed by her how can someone from a