Aurelia, Aurelia

An eerily dream-like memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists

Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe. She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the ...