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Hourglass is an honest and powerful memoir by best‑selling novelist and memoirist Dani Shapiro. The book examines how marriage is transformed by the passage of time—how its emotional bonds are both worn and strengthened, shaped by accidents and experiences. Shapiro opens her home, her marriage, and her heart to readers, inviting them to witness her personal reckoning as she confronts the life she dreamed of and the one she has created, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, she writes about the joys and challenges of matrimonial life with urgency, intelligence, and grace.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Dani Shapiro
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