Everything you need to understand or teach Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick.
When she is in her fifties, Elizabeth looks over the memories of her life and sees a string of people that she has known, many of whom have died by now. She examines her memories and thinks about what she has learned from various experiences, from her childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, to Amsterdam as a young woman, and New England as an adult.
When Elizabeth is a child, she is one...