Kaleidoscope

“Life is literature. Life is love. Life is connection. Life is always on life’s terms. Dani Shapiro’s Kaleidoscope, like all her work, makes our inevitable trips down those same roads so much more bearable, beautiful, and safe. Life is better with Dani Shapiro's insight and vision.”—Jamie Lee Curtis

"I could not put Kaleidoscope down, and I did not want it to end. It is gripping and luminous and so beautifully written, I had to pause between sentences, catching my breath. Dani Shapiro delivers both a very specific intimacy and a wider frame for her experience, allowing each of us to find ourselves in her story. This is memoir at its very best."—Belle Burden, author of Strangers

"Dani Shapiro is a gifted and lyrical writer. When her life and her sight are threatened, she is forced to see her inner and outer world through a new and prescient lens. Her observations on vulnerability, fragility, aging, identity, love, and life itself are profound and deeply insightful. Kaleidoscope is a beautifully constructed narrative, and good medicine."—Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water

“There are books you race through because you need to know what happens, and books you slow yourself down for because you can’t bear for them to end. Kaleidoscope is both. Dani Shapiro has written a work of astonishing beauty about the strange math of a life: the loves and losses, the choices and accidents, the selves we shed and the selves we carry forward. I have loved every one of Dani’s books, but this one stopped me in my tracks. It may be her finest yet.”—Suleika Jaouad, author of The Book of Alchemy