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Biography and Memoir January 2019
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| Late-Life Love by Susan GubarWhat it's about: the bittersweet realities of aging as faced by self-described "antique lovers" and retired English professors, New York Times columnist Susan Gubar (70) and her husband Don Gray (87).
Topics include: the couple's difficult decision to downsize; their reduced mobility and health issues; Gubar's "resounding retort" to ageism.
Want a taste? "Late-life love may heat at a lower temperature, but it bubbles and rises." |
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I'm Afraid of Men
by Vivek Shraya
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl -- and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century.
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The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search For Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
by Julie Catterson Lindahl
This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' role in WWII as she is driven to understand why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story--the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through generations--emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth.
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