Hieroglyphics

"A powerful, deeply moving testament to both the ties of family and the taut fragility of memory's plumb-line. And sometimes we don't need to know them, and sometimes the most charitable thing they can do is to leave us with a version of themselves that we can handle.Lil and Frank married young, and were launched into their courtship and marriage when they learned that they'd both lost a parent at a young age. Shelley, Harvey, Lil and Frank felt so real that it seemed as if I had known them for many years; this book stayed with me well beyond the last page." --Daniel Mason, author of The Winter SoldierWe can never really know our parents; we can only construct their lives from our limited perspective, and from the bits and pieces we are left with.

But over time, that marriage grew and deepened and strengthened, with each harboring their