Songdogs: A Novel Fiction_Gift_Guide He is a much-heralded scholar

He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life-from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing-and whose conclusions turn conventional wisdom on its head

shambling glory

I will never get enough of the Old

this book is perfect for fans of books centered around strong characters with complicated lives

she was rejected because of her race

Songdogs: A Novel Fiction_Gift_Guide He is a much-heralded scholarColum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present. With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage