Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

By Dani Shapiro

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage (2017) is Dani Shapiro's brief Knopf memoir of nearly eighteen years of marriage to the writer she calls M. In short, looping vignettes she weighs courtship, a child's illness, money worries and the daily friction of two literary lives in Connecticut. The book asks how love holds when identity, ambition and the body keep changing over a long partnership.

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