Ebook: The Object Parade

This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell?In recalling her experience, Dinah's essays each begin with one thing? real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming.;I: CARPET BAG; I: This Old Watch; I: Charlie's Piano; I: Metronome; I: Dinah's Room; I: The General's Table; I: Spoon; I: Mole; I: Piano, Too; I: Gertrude's Scarf; II: Chandelier; II: Chicken Stew; II: Nests; II: Collar; II: Charm; II: Flight Jacket; II: Green Earrings; II: Little Black Dress; II: Little Black Dress, Two; II: Ferris Wheel; II: Stick Kite; III: Scoop; III: Eggs; III: Two Guitars; III: Script; III: Christmas Tree; III: Breakfront; III: Spice Chest; III: Jeans And Clogs; III: Poster; III: Letter To Dad; III: Instructions; Epilogue; Acknowledgements.