The Hours

Michael Cunningham · 1998

One day in three women's lives, braided together by Mrs Dalloway and the question of what makes a life bearable.

Three women, one day each: Virginia Woolf beginning Mrs Dalloway in Richmond, a Los Angeles housewife in 1949 reading it, and a New York editor in the 1990s giving a party for a dying friend. Cunningham braids the three so that a gesture in one lands in another, and asks what makes an ordinary life bearable.

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I chose this book because I think Laura Brown makes the strictest of tiger mothers look wonderful by comparison.

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