What a truly stunning book! This is what you read if you want to learn how to write the things that can't be written outright. It's about story and memory and art, about what we remember and don't remember, and aren't sure if we remember or not, and it's about dreams, trying to figure out what they mean, and why this dream, and was it real and am I still alive? It's about time and season, about being a woman, about love, about what we leave behind with others as we're all dying, what we do before we die, living, about intangible things as well as tangible things like antiques and paintings, and how the tangible and intangible are equally fragile, and equally resilient. It's about politics, and about people, and about the mundane and the important, and how nothing and everything is sacred. It's about forgetting and what's forgotten, about being known and being unknowable. Just a truly stunning book, all in a quite understated way.