In this collection of intimate, lyric essays, Eva Silverfine explores what is enduring among life’s impermanent experiences. With an economy of words, this “memoir-in-vignettes” travels across time and place, reflecting on homes, family, relationships, pursuits, religion, and loss. Seeking the universal in the personal, Silverfine takes the reader from a childhood living above her parents’ hardware store in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn in the 1960s; to an adolescence in the beach community of Rockaway, where the shifting sands mirrored her mother’s departure; to a young adulthood studying science until she remembered earlier aspirations to be a writer; to a parenthood raising two sons one mile down a gravel road in the Hill Country of Central Texas.