This collection of entries muses on the stuff of daily life, both trivial and essential.
An Ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraOrdinary book..
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.
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.
In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for conveying knowledge into a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. -- The Chicago Sun-Times 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. [Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of Life and shows how delightfully precious they actually are.
A memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column You May Want to Marry My Husband.
Readers get a full and rich sense of one woman\'s life--ordinary, perhaps, but extraOrdinary in the sense that her observations are so dead-on and universal.
This collection of entries muses on the stuff of daily life, both trivial and essential
