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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art. From a beautiful and moving piece about the memories evoked by the scent of lavender; to elegiac meditations on the cities Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Aciman displays in full the art of the personal essay.