The folded clock
Subtitle: a diary
By: Heidi Julavits
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780385538985
Subjects: American Women authors; Diaries; Mothers; Women; American Authors; Wives
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) she'd since become. Instead, 'The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor.' The entries are daily chronicles of anxieties about grades, looks, boys, and popularity. After reading the confessions of her past self, writes Julavits, 'I want to good-naturedly laugh at this person. I want to but I can't. What she wanted then is scarcely different from what I want today.' Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a forty-something woman, wife, mother, and writer"--