Clarity: A Novel

“Tim O’Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most.” —Haruki Murakami

The author of the American classic The Things They Carried returns with what may be his finest novel yet, an unconventional love story that unspools over decades and across continents between a Lutheran minister who has lost his faith and a young woman, brilliant and blazingly delinquent, fleeing a traumatic past.

Bought a horse. I’m riding her to South Dakota or Montana or Wyoming or Mars. You w...