The Folded Clock: A Diary

The Folded Clock: A Diary

<p>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.”<br>     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 <i>The Folded Clock</i>, 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.<br> <i>     The Folded Clock </i>is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in American letters.<br><br></p>