Dayswork

When I say that Dayswork feels like it was written for me, that doesn't mean it wasn't written for you too. Written by a married couple, both writers, it is the story of a married couple, both writers, making their way, as we all did, through the stir-crazy days of the early pandemic, but it's really the story of the heroic and tragic life of Herman Melville, and the death and afterlife of his work in the minds of readers, told through tiny facts from his life and from the century and a half he has remained alive for those who care about him. I'm not sure how to explain that this collection of facts, hung loosely on a story of married life that is hardly a story at all, manages to be the funniest and sweetest and most moving book I've read all year, but it is. I loved it so much.