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A review by book_beat
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
5.0
“For a brief breathtaking moment, I feel completely whole. I understand that I am composed of many selves that make up a single chorus. To listen to the music this chorus makes, to recognize it as music, as something noble, varied, patterned, sublime — that is the work of a lifetime.”
Dani Shapiro's "Hourglass" memoir is a 145 page stream of consciousness novel focused around her marriage, family, work, memory, and the passing of time. In one snapshot, Shapiro describes viewing a pile of photographs from a lifetime: disorganized, flipping through a slide show, watching, mesmerized. “Hourglass” reads like this: a disorganized glimpse at a life. This feeling of “disorganization” is hard to achieve in such an effortless way. Hopping from memory to memory, Shapiro captures how one whole person reacts and feels and processes a full life, joined with another.
Dani Shapiro's "Hourglass" memoir is a 145 page stream of consciousness novel focused around her marriage, family, work, memory, and the passing of time. In one snapshot, Shapiro describes viewing a pile of photographs from a lifetime: disorganized, flipping through a slide show, watching, mesmerized. “Hourglass” reads like this: a disorganized glimpse at a life. This feeling of “disorganization” is hard to achieve in such an effortless way. Hopping from memory to memory, Shapiro captures how one whole person reacts and feels and processes a full life, joined with another.