An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History

This exquisite prose debut from a prize-winning poet is a poignant exploration of the author’s experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time’s passage.

“Enchanting.... Zarin knits her stories together with an appealing and deeply intimate voice.” —Boston Globe

Zarin charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary life and family in writing that feels nearly fictional in its richness of scene, dialogue, and mood. The writer herself is the marvelously rueful character at...