ISBN: 0307420655 9780307420657

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

Page count: 240

<b>A memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”</b><br><i> </i><br><b>“[Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of life and shows how delightfully precious they actually are.” —<i>The Chicago Sun-Times</i></b><br><i> </i><br>How do you conjure a life? Give the truest account of what you saw, felt, learned, loved, strived for? For Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the surprising answer came in the form of an encyclopedia. In<i> Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life </i> she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for conveying knowledge into a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir.<br> <br>Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere—preferably at the beginning—and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways.<br> <br>An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book.