The Folded Clock

Publisher Marketing: Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, "The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor." The entries are daily chronicles of anxieties about grades, looks, boys, and popularity. After reading the confessions of her past self, writes Julavits, "I want to good-naturedly laugh at this person. I want to but I can't. What she wanted then is scarcely different from what I want today." Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a forty-something woman, wife, mother, and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self. Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/2014 pg. 64 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2015 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 02/02/2015 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 88 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) - *Starred Review New York Times Book Review 04/05/2015 pg. 26 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 03/29/2015 pg. 1 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) BookPage 04/01/2015 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) Booklist 04/15/2015 pg. 12 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 05/01/2015 pg. 67 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 05/08/2015 pg. 66 (EAN 9780385538985, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Julavits, Heidi Heidi Julavits has published short fiction in Esquire; her nonfiction has been published in Poets & Writers and Time Out New York. A 1990 graduate of Dartmouth, she has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is at work on her second novel. Contributor Bio:  Gilbert, Tavia Producer Tavia Gilbert is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, an Audie Award nominee, and a Parent's Choice Award winner. She makes her home in Portland, Maine, where she works as a writer and a stage and voice actor. Tavia produces, directs, and narrates unique audiobooks, full-cast recordings, and documentaries, and she is currently pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.