Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

“Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”

All his life a prologue and now it’s finally going to begin.

By age seventeen he’d convinced himself that every human he saw was a parasite, captive to the dictates of consumption. But as he reconstructs Zeno’s translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.