A review by wentingthings
The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits

3.0

heidi julavits' diary, of sorts, from a slivered section of her life. excellent and weird and penetrating and sometimes petty. felt strange moments of empathy, and also moments of complete disconnect while reading. her voice made me think of a more contemporary and settled iteration of shirley jackson's from LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES. i'm not sure why i like a lot of the personal writing of authors whose fiction i didn't particularly enjoy. perhaps it is some imagined greater degree of honesty that strikes me. or maybe the exhilaration that comes from a conditional invitation to tromp around inside a whole other person's head.