Writ

Writ is about youth, memory and love. Following an unexpected brief encounter, the narrator experiences a giddiness not felt since those excruciatingly awkward episodes that befall youth. When she then finds her fourteen year old self at the kitchen table, she revisits a past that she had abandoned after acquiring experience and maturity. With a dazzling linguistic style and witty cultural references, Smith arouses the reader’s own memory and imagination, recalling what it is like to be young, what it is like to grow up, what it is like to touch love.