Patricia Morrisroe has made a clever choice with this memoir: she uses the shoes she was wearing at the time of different life events as signposts/markers, and opportunities to talk about what was happening at the time. From her fondness for white patent Mary Janes in grammar school to confirmatio...
A fourth-generation insomniac, Patricia Morrisroe decided that the only way she’d ever conquer her lifelong sleep disorder was by becoming an expert on the subject. So, armed with half a century of personal experience and a journalist’s curiosity, she set off to explore one of life’s greatest myster...