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The Folded Clock

By Heidi Julavits
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Publisher 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.”
     Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a fortysomething woman, wife, mother, and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, betrayal and loyalty, friendship and romance, faith and fate, marriage and family, desire and death, gossip and secrets, art and ambition.
     The Folded Clock is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in American letters.

4 Reviews

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Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes“I strongly recommend Heidi Julavits for fans of Rachel Cusk. That thoughtful meditation on womanhood, life, and art is a throughline between both authors, and makes for a gorgeous gem of a memoir.”
Beautifully writtenConversationalComplexBeautiful settingInsightfulThought-provoking
“i loved every observation, story, word. i sometimes felt she was writing from my own heart. i have nothing but wonderful things to say, yet i can't say them...because what i say cannot sum up how much i loved this book.”

About Heidi Julavits

Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels (The VanishersThe Uses of EnchantmentThe Effect of Living Backwards, and The Mineral Palace) and co-editor, with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton, of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's MagazineMcSweeney’s, and The Best American Short Stories, among other places. She's a founding editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Manhattan, where she teaches at Columbia University. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine.

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