The business of courtship is like a tango: absurd and pure embellishment.

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast fr…”

“Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening …”

“Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara ex…”

“As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myse…”