Our Days Are Like Full Years by Harriet Pattison review – moving and heroic

Life as the lover of the restless US architect Louis Kahn was fulfilling – but never easyNot again,” said the great American architect Louis Kahn, when his lover Harriet Pattison told him she was pregnant. He’d had another lover, Anne Tyng, who had had a daughter with him eight years before. It is one of the lines in Pattison’s book that stings. Another comes when she finds that his wife Esther, who was relatively prosperous, was helping to support the precarious finances