num_pages: 241
description: After the death of her sister Nina Sankovitch found herself caught up in grief dashing from one activity to the next to keep her mind occupied. But on her forty-sixth birthday she decided to stop running and start reading.Catalyzed by the loss of her sister a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition of Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon's A Year of Magical Thinking Nina Sankovitch's soul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of losshope and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy and through her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim our lives.
language: English
title: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
publisher: Harper