<div><div><div><b>An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by "an original new voice" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) and the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize</b></div></div><div> </div><div>In this sparkling nonfiction debut, Ander Monson uses unexpectedly nonliterary forms--the index, the Harvard Outline, the mathematical proof--to delve into an equally surprising mix of obsessions: disc golf, the history of mining in northern Michigan, car washes, topology, and more. He reflects on his outsider experience at an exclusive Detroit-area boarding school in the form of a criminal history and invents a new form as he meditates on snow.</div></div>