Ron Nyren's The Book of Lost Light-- winner of Black Lawrence Press's 2019 Big Moose Prize and finalist for the 2020 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction-- tells the story of Joseph Kylander, whose childhood in early 20th-century San Francisco has been shaped by his father's obsessive photographic project and by his headstrong cousin Karelia's fanciful storytelling and impulsive acts. The 1906 earthquake upends their routines,...