{"product_id":"hourglass-time-memory-marriage-9781101974261","title":"Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHourglass\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise--how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack? 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-310272\"\u003eDani Shapiro\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101974261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1101974265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO022000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDANI SHAPIRO \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the memoirs \u003ci\u003eStill Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDevotion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlow Motion\u003c\/i\u003e and five novels including \u003ci\u003eBlack \u0026amp; White\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFamily History\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e the op-ed pages of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and has been broadcast on \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e. Shapiro was recently Oprah Winfrey's guest on \u003ci\u003eSuper Soul Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, the New School, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. Shapiro lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43834831569035,"sku":"9781101974261","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_90933d55-385e-48a0-a2ac-405cf811d15a.jpg?v=1755665705","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/hourglass-time-memory-marriage-9781101974261","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}