num_pages: 304
description: Like many young people Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) shed since become. Instead The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor. Thus was born a desire to try again to chronicle her daily life as a fortysomething woman wife mother and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock  in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self youth and aging betrayal and loyalty friendship and romance faith and fate marriage and family desire and death gossip and secrets art and ambition. The Folded Clock is as playful as it is brilliant a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in American letters.
language: English
title: The Folded Clock: A Diary
publisher: Doubleday