Necessary Errors

<b>ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS<br> <i>The Wall Street Journal - Slate - Kansas City Star - Flavorwire - Policy Mic <b><b><b><b><i><b><b><b><b><i>- Buzzfeed <p/></i></b></b></b></b></i></b></b></b></b></i><i>Necessary Errors</i> is a very good novel an enviably good one and to read it is to relive all the anxieties and illusions and grand projects of one's own youth.--James Wood <i>The New Yorker<br></i><br>The exquisite debut novel by the author of <i>Overthrow </i>that brilliantly captures the lives and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague <p/></b>It's October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He's arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia's revolution but he still hopes to find its spirit somehow. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and capitalism and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant searching sense of possibility. As the men and women Jacob meets begin to fall in love with one another no one turns out to be quite the same as the idea Jacob has of them--including Jacob himself. <p/><i>Necessary Errors</i> is the long-awaited first novel from literary critic and journalist Caleb Crain. Shimmering and expansive Crain's prose richly captures the turbulent feelings and discoveries of youth as it stretches toward adulthood--the chance encounters that grow into lasting unforgettable experiences and the surprises of our first ventures into a foreign world--and the treasure of living in Prague during an era of historic change. <p/><b><br></b>