Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.
Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.
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This is a beautiful memoir of which chronology is the least important aspect of it. The author looks back at her 18-year-old marriage with M, whom we get to know as a kind, smart, ambitious, adventurous, loving and eager to protect. She writes this at a point where you can tell that her marriage has suffered a big shake, where she has doubt him more than ever, where she has questioned the future, and for me, a woman about to embark on marriage, it was a lovely and honest reading, a preparation for the tumultuous and beautiful life ahead of us.
Likeless so far. Lead the way
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