Telephone

<p><b>'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . sad, affecting and marvelous' <i>New York Times</i><br><br>A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, <i>T</i><i>elephone</i> is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of <i>The Trees, Dr No </i>and <i>Erasure </i>(now an Oscar-nominated film).</b><br><br>Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in an incredibly niche field, he spends his days playing chess with his daughter, trading puns with his wife as she does yoga, and dodging committee work at the college where he teaches.<br><br>After his daughter is diagnosed with a fatal illness, Wells finds a cryptic plea for help tucked into a secondhand jacket bought online. Desperately seeking a way avoid his newfound sense of powerless