Elle Best Books of 2017 Kirkus Best Books of 2017 The bestselling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work a piercing lifeaffirming memoir about marriage and memory about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds and about the accretion over time of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by timeabraded strengthened shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and rel