Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

ISBN: 0061999857

Author: Sankovitch, Nina

Condition: New

Nina Sankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature--to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves." --Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between UsCatalyzed 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 Rubins The Happiness Project and Joan Dideons A Year of Magical Thinking, Nina Sankovitchs soul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss, hope, and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy and through her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim our lives.