What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

by Carole Radziwill

Life, we say at dinner parties or while we’re tsk-tsking the evening news, is so short, and then she proves it.

Ultimately what remains is a story. In the end, it’s the only thing any of us really owns.

There are days I feel as though the interesting part of my life has happened to me. The curtain has come down, the guests have gone home, and I am here alone, waiting for a ride.