The Nimbus

“Baird is brilliant, and so is his remarkable novel about faith, family, and the life of the mind. Read this wonderful book. You’ll be glad to own it.”–Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Robert P. Baird has written a novel of remarkable breadth, one that ponders both the big mysteries (God, miracles) and the small ones (petty graduate school advisers). The Nimbus is a revelation, a book that explores our deep longing for something extraordinary in an otherwise ordinary world.”–Nathan Hill, author of Wellness

“I think that there are miracles in the world, but realistic novels don’t usually tackle them. Baird’s intelligence, compassion, and humor illuminate this astonishingly original debut, which somehow manages to ask hard questions about how to live while also being enormously fun to read.”–Nell Freudenberger, author of The Limits“A big-hearted novel about the biggest questions–marriage, religion, parenthood, meaning. The Nimbus is comic and profound, a novel that practically glows. Robert P. Baird is a huge talent.”–Elliot Ackerman, author of Waiting for Eden

“I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed getting lost in the pages of a novel this much. Set in an academic milieu that is captured with delicious precision, and populated with intricately drawn characters as intelligent and compelling as they are believable, The Nimbus is as humane and psychologically astute as it is entertaining–the kind of novel that reminds you why you read fiction in the first place.”–Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Robert P. Baird holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and has worked as an editor at The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Esquire, and Chicago Review. He has written for all those publications, as well as for The New York Times, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, and Poetry, among others.