Format: 259 pp., hardcover with dust jacket; Size: 8.25” × 10.25”; Price: $27.00; Publisher: Penguin Press; Number of people Vesta speaks aloud to: six, including her dog Charlie and her dead husband; Number of wine corks Vesta breaks: innumerable; Other books by the author: Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation; Representative Passage: “It seemed to me a cruel message: Yes, yes, be alive, make your mess, but when you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up evidence of your existence. Reminders will only trouble those who live on. They’ll have to waste their own lives cleaning up yours.”
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