Lifescapes: A Biographer's Search for the Soul"A lyrical, radiant memoir." Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and through people she has known, studied, or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after in this breathtaking combination of poetry, memoir, and observation. 'What is life?' asked the poet Shelley,

while rejecting an elaborate redactional history of that gospel that implicates the letters

Recognize your role as the curator of your home who makes smart

generally are society’s rejects

“Step inside the Higher Grounds Café

What will happen to those left behind

yet a man of contrasts

Who's In Charge Here

Enjoy the structured

and an abandoned town can't be ignored

In the midst of the celebration and success

These self-disclosures are called theophanies

he had no love