"Paul Auster moves through the events of his life in a series of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing baseball as a teenager; participating in the anti-Vietnam demonstrations; almost killing his wife and child in a car accident; falling in and out of live with his first wife. In WINTER JOURNAL, Auster presents mother's struggle as a single parent; love found late and short-lived; and the anxiety attacks he suffered in the face of her death."