Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

<p><strong>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 <em>The Space Between Us</em></strong><p>Catalyzed 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 <em>The Happiness Project</em> and Joan Dideon's <em>A Year of Magical Thinking</em> 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.</p>