From the Dust | The Scent of Books

On Memoir: Back to the beginning. The start of measuring the years in prison sentences and release dates.

Sliding the pages across my cheeks, I pull the book away from my face. I open it again and flip to the page opposite the title page and search for the copyright date.

Copyright, 1937, by John Steinbeck.

I have a thing about dates. I like to know how long it’s been since things began. Going back in time, to the beginning, the beginning of something. The be…