WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.
Anthony DoerrTime is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Anthony DoerrInvisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.
Anthony DoerrTo say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
Anthony Doerr