Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

Three years after her sister Anne-Marie died, Nina Sankovitch was living a helter-skelter life, making a mad dash away from the grief and pain, unable to accept her loss. She knew she needed to ditch the hectic schedule, hold still, reflect, and make some sense of her feelings. A year of reading and reviewing one book every day was the method she chose to give herself that healing time and escape back into life. In Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, she shares her experiences while living that year, the memories it sparked, and how it allowed her to accept the unfairness of her sisters death and feel whole again. If you believe in books as therapy, or youre working through grief of your own, or you just want to breathe new life into your reading program, this could be a book for you.