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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Catalyzed by the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon’s A Year of Magical Thinking, Nina Sankovitch’s soul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss, hope, and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy and through her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim our lives.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
by Nina Sankovitch

  • Publication Date: June 19, 2012
  • Genres: Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • ISBN-10: 0061999857
  • ISBN-13: 9780061999857