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A heartfelt exploration of how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings in our lives.
One August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilsons feet: the same one she had used to bake her wedding cake twenty-three years prior. This discovery struck a wave of emotions that propelled her in search of others who have invested kitchen objects with magical and personal properties. A favorite wooden spoon or a saltshaker inherited from a parent: these and other items become powerful symbols of identity and memory, representing friendship, grief, love, superstition, safety, and political resistance. Crossing continents, cultures, and time periods, Wilson weaves her own family story into a wider narrative, highlighting objects such as a 5,000-year-old ancient Ecuadorian ceramic bottle used for drinking chocolate, hand-shaped kitchen tongs, vintage corkscrews, and her mothers silver-plated toast rack. Thoughtful, sharp, and beautifully written,The Heart-Shaped Tinis a profoundly moving examination of our relationship to the physical worldand the people around usin an increasingly rational and secular age.
