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A review by linneakarchibald
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
4.0
4 STARS
What a beautiful memoir. At only 160 pages, this book flew by. The book is less a linear story than it is a meditation on Dani Shapiro's 20+ years of marriage. The most beautiful sections dealt with the nature of how we change while in long-term relationships, morphing into a different person than we were when the relationship began but doing so alongside the person we love. Shapiro paints a picture of a life filled with joy and sadness, predictability and surprise, celebration and disappointment running alongside each other and molding her and her family into the people they are today. Somehow, we're both the same people we were a decade ago and also very different.
This book meditates on the paradox of aging and changing. The only thing holding this book back from five stars for me is that it was so short.
What a beautiful memoir. At only 160 pages, this book flew by. The book is less a linear story than it is a meditation on Dani Shapiro's 20+ years of marriage. The most beautiful sections dealt with the nature of how we change while in long-term relationships, morphing into a different person than we were when the relationship began but doing so alongside the person we love. Shapiro paints a picture of a life filled with joy and sadness, predictability and surprise, celebration and disappointment running alongside each other and molding her and her family into the people they are today. Somehow, we're both the same people we were a decade ago and also very different.
This book meditates on the paradox of aging and changing. The only thing holding this book back from five stars for me is that it was so short.