One of NPR's Best Books of the Year“The tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society.” —Dwight Garner,The New York Times “In short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time.” —The Wall Street JournalBy the National Book Award–winning author ofThe Friend In 1934, a "sickly pathetic marmoset” named