Unsayable: A Life in Writing Rebecca Lemke From the risky backstreets of

From the risky backstreets of sixteenth-century Paris to the unpredictable suburbs of mid-twentieth century New York

she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days

if he is brave enough

Little does he know that his shy little fiancée is about to lead him on a merry ride…and a lesson in true love

November 12

Unsayable: A Life in Writing Rebecca Lemke From the risky backstreets ofAn intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Hours and Day Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see whats on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collecting the names of things: oak, Chevrolet, finch, tulip, Tupperware. . . . Each word rendered the world ever so slightly more understandable, more describable,