A review by karenpcheng
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro

3.0

I just finished this book, yet I could not tell you what it was about. What I can tell you is that it felt meditative, like I had stepped inside Dani Shapiro’s mind as it meandered and reflected on the vignettes of her life. The book’s subtitle says it’s about “memory”, and in many ways she wrote it as we experience memories - non-linearly, yet layered and connected. She bounces around between the early days of her marriage to the present day, back and forth across various points in her career and throughout motherhood. I’m not sure it resulted in a terribly strong narrative, but it was definitely experiential, in a good way. On the heels of Shapiro’s Inheritance, which had a stellar narrative, this was just okay for me.