Michael Kleber-Diggs

Beard

History & Biography

“Beard is a keenly observed personal history, an enduring story of love and loss and then, ultimately, love. Lundquist beautifully renders her fragile first marriage and all its earnest striving with honesty and grace. She has given me everything I want in a memoir; Beard is smart, funny, richly detailed, candid, revelatory, thoughtful, meaningful, and moving. And, in the way of all great works, it leads us to higher truths.”