Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

“Nina Sankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature--to heal to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves. --Thrity Umrigar author of The Space Between UsCatalyzed by the loss of her sister a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon’s A Year of Magical Thinking Nina Sankovitch’s soul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss hope and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy and through her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim our lives.