Title: The folded clock
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"--
Subjects: American Women authors, Diaries, Mothers, Women, American Authors, Wives, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, nyt:culture=2015-05-10, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Women authors, Women, united states, biography, Authors, american
Places: United States
People: Heidi Julavits
Time periods: 21st century