Aug 9—Fog

A real woman’s diary transformed into an enigmatic epistolary novel— “a tender and human portrait of old age” ( ZYZZYVA ). “Sharp, slivered shards of beauty, every page a small prose poem of ordinary living, in all its banality and force: first snowfall, berries for jam, a house burnt down, a husband dying. The searing strokes of this book remind me of the infinitude inside every life.” — The A.V. Club Paris Review  Staff Pick, one of  Chicago Tribune ’s 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one