FICTIONAL SAMPLE — ALL PEOPLE AND RECORDS INVENTED

A Life in Chapters

Nora called one chapter Learning to Stay. It covered three addresses and two occupations, but its subject was belonging. A letter placed her in the second flat by October; she remembered the first winter only as the year the pipes froze. The chapter keeps those two kinds of knowledge beside one another. A thematic structure lets her return to the same question at different ages without suggesting she had already found its answer.