Linotte

This “amazingly precocious” diary of girlhood in the early twentieth century is filled with a “special charm” ( The Christian Science Monitor ).   Born in Paris, Anaïs Nin started her celebrated diary at age eleven, when she was immigrating to New York with her mother and two young brothers. The diary became her confidant, her beloved friend, in which she recorded her most intimate thoughts and kept watch on the state of her character.   Offering an amusing view of Nin’s early life, fr