Heidi Julavits

The Folded Clock Heidi Julavits

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) Contributor Bio:  Julavits, Heidi Heidi Julavits is the author of two previous novels, The Mineral Palace and The Effect of Living Backwards, as well as a collaborative book, Hotel Andromeda, with the artist Jenny Gage. She is a founding editor of The Believer, and her writings have appeared in Esquire, Time, The New York Times, McSweeney's among other places. She lives in Manhattan and Maine. Contributor Bio:  Gilbert, Tavia Tavia Gilbert, a six-time Audie Award nominee and multiple Earphones and Parent's Choice Award winning producer, narrator, and writer, has appeared on stage and in film. She has narrated over 250 multicast and single-voice audiobooks.