The Folded Clock

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A raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of one year in the life of the incomparable Heidi Julavits Like many young girls, Heidi Julavits wrote in her diary every day. Years later, she found her old diaries, hoping to find proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, "The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a phobic tax auditor." The entries are daily chronicles of anxieties about grades, looks, boys, and popularity. Reading these lines from her past self, writes Julavits, "I want to good-naturedly laugh at this person. I want to but I can't. What she wanted then is scarcely different from what I want today." Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a forty-something 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, sex and marriage, childhood and parenting, art and ambition,...