Hourglass

In this bold and riveting memoir, the bestselling author of Devotion and Black & White returns with a study of marriage and memory, about the vulnerability and elasticity of our most important ties, and the accumulation of both sadness and love over time. Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart with courage and unflinching honesty, inviting us to witness her own marital reckoning—a reckoning she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she created, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. What factors are at work to shape our most fundamental bonds? How can we establish lifetime commitments in the face of constantly fluctuating identities, and how do we commit ourselves for all time when the self is always changing?