"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"--
- ISBN10 0385538995
- ISBN13 9780385538992
- Publish Date 1 January 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format eBook
- Language English