April 20, 2012
The different stages of a woman’s life are revealed through writing about food, friendship, domesticity, divorce, child rearing, jealousy, and love— all peppered with Amy Ephron’s characteristic charm and humor.
Four years ago, Amy Ephron came home to find that every single piece of jewelry she owned was gone- taken by a burglar that was responsible for an epidemic of millions of dollars of stolen jewelry across Los Angeles. Missing from Amy’s jewelry boxes were the gold stud earrings that her mother had given her when she’d first had her ears pierced, the twenties marcasite-and-crystal bracelet, and the pearls she never wore from an ex-fiancé. While Amy was bereaved after realizing that her jewelry would never be replaced, she came to realize that its real value lay in the memories associated with the jewelry, and not in the jewelry itself.
These memories spurned more memories, and soon Amy began to write. What she formed was a series of essays titled , Loose Diamonds, that cover the odd, funny, distressing (and everything-in-between) events in her life. From a childhood story set in the ‘60s about “The Bird Man”– a famous architect who taught Amy about magic – to nights in the ‘80s drinking Cristal, to the time when a 10,000-lb tractor fell in her backyard to the struggles of post-modern dating, to her lifelong love affair with Saks Fifth Avenue, this book will touch on love, loss and the tangible value of memories; marriage, divorce, infidelity, and the ability to say “next!” The essays are linked in tone by a relentless optimism, humor, and a measured understanding that ups and downs, Gidlove and heartbreak, friendship and loss are the fabric of a woman’s life.
Four years ago, Amy Ephron came home to find that every single piece of jewelry she owned was gone- taken by a burglar that was responsible for an epidemic of millions of dollars of stolen jewelry across Los Angeles. Missing from Amy’s jewelry boxes were the gold stud earrings that her mother had given her when she’d first had her ears pierced, the twenties marcasite-and-crystal bracelet, and the pearls she never wore from an ex-fiancé. While Amy was bereaved after realizing that her jewelry would never be replaced, she came to realize that its real value lay in the memories associated with the jewelry, and not in the jewelry itself.
These memories spurned more memories, and soon Amy began to write. What she formed was a series of essays titled , Loose Diamonds, that cover the odd, funny, distressing (and everything-in-between) events in her life. From a childhood story set in the ‘60s about “The Bird Man”– a famous architect who taught Amy about magic – to nights in the ‘80s drinking Cristal, to the time when a 10,000-lb tractor fell in her backyard to the struggles of post-modern dating, to her lifelong love affair with Saks Fifth Avenue, this book will touch on love, loss and the tangible value of memories; marriage, divorce, infidelity, and the ability to say “next!” The essays are linked in tone by a relentless optimism, humor, and a measured understanding that ups and downs, Gidlove and heartbreak, friendship and loss are the fabric of a woman’s life.
