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An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick - A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023 - A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023 - A Chicago Public Library Must-Read Book of 2023 - A Paris Review and Seattle Public Library Staff Favorite of 2023 - A Nashville Public Library Top Ten Book of 2023 A startlingly original, incantatory novel about marriage, mortality, and making art.

In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the pandemic sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. Obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt, she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled an...