nprfreshair: Maureen Corrigan: “I have weeks, as a book reviewer, where I feel like Claire. Those are the weeks when it seems like every new book is a riff on Jane Austen, or a young adult vampire/warrior/shape-shifter fantasy, or yet another homage to dead dogs. And then a literary miracle like Beautiful Ruins appears, and once again I’m a believer.” I found myself dog-earing pages as I read this book, which I never do - and one of the pages I turned down contained this wonderful, succinct, cutting, sad line: “What business does memory have with time?”
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nprfreshair:

Maureen Corrigan: “I have weeks, as a book reviewer, where I feel like Claire. Those are the weeks when it seems like every new book is a riff on Jane Austen, or a young adult vampire/warrior/shape-shifter fantasy, or yet another homage to dead dogs. And then a literary miracle like Beautiful Ruins appears, and once again I’m a believer.”

I found myself dog-earing pages as I read this book, which I never do - and one of the pages I turned down contained this wonderful, succinct, cutting, sad line:

“What business does memory have with time?”