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Tara Westover Author Read Alikes April 24, 2019
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If you enjoy reading books by Tara Westover try these authors
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
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The Glass Castle : A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
The child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing--from the Arizona desert to Las Vegas to Appalachia--during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
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The Girl's Guide to Homelessness : A Memoir
by Brianna Karp
The author, surviving a childhood of violence and abuse, shares her journey as a homeless person, ashamed and terrified at first, but then awestruck by the extraordinary people she connected with whose stories inspired her to become an activist for the homeless community.
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Little Faith
by Nickolas Butler
A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when an adult daughter falls under the influence of a radical church that threatens a grandchild's safety.
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me : A Memoir
by Sherman Alexie
The National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian presents a literary memoir of poems, essays and intimate family photos that reflect his complicated feelings about his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation with his siblings and alcoholic parents.
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The Sound of Gravel : A Memoir
by Ruth Wariner
An account of the author's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult describes her childhood on a Mexico hills farm as one of her father's more than 40 welfare-dependent children, the extreme religious beliefs that haunted her daily life and her escape in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The critically acclaimed author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
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The Only Girl in the World : A Memoir
by Maude Julien
A memoir by a therapy specialist in manipulation and psychological control describes her harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness," recounting how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
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The Tender Land : A Family Love Story
by Kathleen Finneran
In a poignant study of family loss and love, the author describes the suicide of her younger teenage brother, a gifted athlete and student, following a humiliation at school, and the impact of the loss on her family, whose remarkable love for one other helped them deal with the tragedy.
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Mother, Daughter, Me : A Memoir
by Katie Hafner
A health and technology journalist documents the author's efforts to promote family bonds and healing during a haphazard year spent sharing a home in San Francisco with her complicated octogenarian mother and teenage daughter.
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The Rules Do Not Apply : A Memoir
by Ariel Levy
An award-winning New Yorker staff writer and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs shares a profound, hopeful memoir of her own experiences with devastating loss to council fellow survivors about the healing aspects of accepting difficult life challenges that are beyond our control.
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Bastards : A Memoir
by Mary Anna King
Relates how the author was sent from Camden, New Jersey, where her mother could no longer take care of her, to Oklahoma, where she was legally adopted by her grandparents and given a new name, but was haunted by the past and the siblings she left behind.
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The Bright Hour : A Memoir of Living and Dying
by Nina Riggs
The author of Lucky, Lucky presents a full-length account of her experiences with terminal metastatic breast cancer as documented in her blog Suspicious Country, a journey that reshaped her views about marriage, motherhood, friendship and memory.
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Sing for Your Life : A Story of Race, Music, and Family
by Daniel Bergner
A chronicle of a young black man's journey from violence to the world's elite opera circles describes Ryan Speedo Green's abuse-marked upbringing and struggles with racism and imprisonment before winning a New York Metropolitan Opera competition.
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With or Without You : A Memoir
by Domenica Ruta
A wryly comic, deeply emotional memoir of the author's relationship with her flamboyant drug dealer mother describes her misfit youth and eventual escape into writing before succumbing to addiction and resolving to leave her past in order to survive.
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Cartwheels in a Sari : A Memoir of Growing Up Cult
by Jayanti Tamm
The author describes growing up in a Queens ashram under the guru Sri Chinmoy, discussing the community's strict regimen of spiritual practices, her rebellious behavior, eventual questioning of the guru's beliefs, and final separation.
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Crux : A Cross-Border Memoir
by Jean Guerrero
The author chronicles her quest to find and save her charismatic, troubled and elusive father, a self-mythologizing Mexican immigrant who travels across continents—and across the borders between imagination and reality—fleeing real and invented persecutors.
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Lullabies for Little Criminals
by Heather O'Neill
Living with her heroin addict father, Jules, thirteen-year-old Baby catches the eye of the charismatic Alphonse, who possesses a string of girls who do his bidding, and is sent to reform school, but when she ultimately gains her freedom, she begins to discover that only she possesses the power to save herself.
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