A review by mtillstaff
Aug 9 - Fog⁠ by Kathryn Scanlan

5.0

Scanlon found this diary by an 86 year-old woman at an estate sale. Then she refashioned it, keeping the writer's words, but cutting and rearranging her sentences. The diarist records changes in the weather, a friend's illness, making pickles, a humdinger of a jigsaw puzzle. It is sparse and short. It seems simple. It is wise. It attests to the complex beauty that is life. It made me smile. It made me tear up. Buying a copy for my nightstand.