Three people mentioned Belle Burden’s Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage to me in the last few weeks. That seemed like the universe whispering. I read it on the long flight home from Las Vegas after hiking in Death Valley. Burden’s…
Ann Tashi Slater has written an unusual and effective hybrid of memoir and self-help called Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World. Slater’s mother moved to the United States in 1951, the first Tibetan to attend…
Sybil Van Antwerp – our heroine – is the kind of neighbor you might like, or might not. She’s smart, retired, divorced, and keeps to herself. When her past comes calling – stalking, really – she can’t ignore it this…