The book is about her discovery of a young woman's diary, kept in New York in the 1930s, and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at age 90. The diary was recovered from a steamer trunk found in a dumpster outside of Koppel's apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
I believe the correct answer is: The speaker describes his love as an earthy being.
In “Sonnet 130”, William Shakespeare describes his love as an earthly being, as opposed to the manners of Renaissance in which the loved ones were described as metaphysical, beyond natural beauty. Paradoxically, by showing his lover as pale in comparison to the sun, corals and snow, Shakespeare intensifies the power of his love towards her. Even if she isn’t celestial maiden, he still loves her.