
Memoir
A Different Grape
I don’t know much about my mother’s early twenties in Los Angeles. From photographs, I know she favored mauve nail polish and owned a leopard print one-piece.
Author
HALEY SWANSON is the managing editor of In Review Magazine of New York. She’s also co-editor of Sex and the Single Woman (Harper Perennial, 2022) and a teaching artist for The New York Public Library.

I don’t know much about my mother’s early twenties in Los Angeles. From photographs, I know she favored mauve nail polish and owned a leopard print one-piece.