This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a
provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to
examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What
memories do they hold? And, lined up in a row, what stories do they
have to tell?In recalling her experience, Dinah's essays each begin
with one thing  real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or
ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes
with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or
reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her
coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano
that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted
watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress
that carries all of youth's love and longing; the purple scarf that
stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across
stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream.Read together or
apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of
moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; or coming to terms with
place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with
up-ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too.
Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky
life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the
ties that bind the passage of time.
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