Empty Pool

This book is an encyclopedia. It's also a scrapbook of clippings, postcards, and other pools of memory. As an encyclopedia, it's both arbitrary and deliberately biased. But this doesn't make it incomplete: its many entries tell the universal story of one person. As a scrapbook, on the other hand, it progresses accurately, with the methodical finesse of a constellation governing a people's fate. Each essay in this volume, each entry in this vast and intimate encyclopedia, is a love letter. They'r