Tolstoy and the Purple ChairNina 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 Us Catalyzed 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

and picturesque villages

naughty words

losing your youth

Laila is yet to recover from her painful past

disregard for order

Intensive and disturbing

or trying MDMA for the first (and only) time

When a young couple finds a boy asleep on their porch

war on the US-Mexico border

But he knows better than anyone that love only leads to heartbreak

” — Seattle Times

Gandhi’s perseverance