This morning's New York Times obituaries describe a memoir titled "Under a Cruel Star."
This is not the story of Kayshonne Insixieng May, who appears with mathematics professor Edward Frenkel in his recent homage to Yukio Mishima, "Rites of Love and Math." (See press kit pdf.)
Mathematics Professor Edward Frenkel
For further details, see yesterday's East Bay Express —
Erotica, Intrigue, and Arithmetic in 'Rites of Love and Math' —
Berkeley professor Edward Frenkel brings his passion for math
to the masses — by starring in an erotic film.
Professor Frenkel also appears in last Saturday's post "Forgive Us Our Transgressions."
Related material —
“I carry the past inside me like an accordion, like a book of picture postcards that people bring home as souvenirs from foreign cities, small and neat,” she wrote in her memoir. “But all it takes is to lift one corner of the top card for an endless snake to escape, zigzag joined to zigzag, the sign of the viper, and instantly all the pictures line up before my eyes.”
— Today's New York Times on Heda Kovaly, author of Under a Cruel Star
See also the endless snake in a post from last Sunday, the day of Kovaly's death.