Paul Harding: 'Tinkers'

Published: Oct. 29, 2010, 5 p.m.

At once heartbreaking and life affirming, "Tinkers" is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. Paul Harding earned his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught writing at Harvard and the University of Iowa. "Tinkers" is his first novel.