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Biography and Memoir March 2023 |
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| Bad Mormon by Heather GayWhat it's about: Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay's complicated relationship with the Mormon faith in which she was raised.
Read it for: an irreverent account of spirituality lost and found; dishy gossip on Gay's Real Housewives castmates.
Want a taste? "Everything in my life confirmed my identity, my faith, and my future. Until it didn't." |
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Persephone's Children : A Life in Fragments
by Rowan Mccandless
What it is: Persephone’s Children chronicles Rowan McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman escaping the stranglehold of a long-term abusive relationship.
Reviewers say: "a candid and deeply moving literary 'life in fragments.'" (Quill & Quire)
Try this next: Dear Current Occupant by Chelene Knight.
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| A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm TóibínWhat it is: a collection of 11 previously published pieces from prizewinning Irish novelist Colm Tóibín (The Magician).
Topics include: Tóibín's upbringing and early career highlights; religion; sexuality; battles with testicular cancer; the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reviewers say: "Erudite essays from one of the world's finest writers" (Kirkus Reviews); "Tóibín's fans will relish these sharp reflections" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Drinking Games : A Memoir by Sarah LevyWhat it is: Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived--and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning. Let's explore: Drinking Games looks at the role alcohol has in our formative years, and what it means to opt out of a culture completely enmeshed in drinking. Want a taste: " I told my friends I was tries. Lie to them, sadness told me. I faked a yawn and left, walking home slowly like the main character in a sad music video." |
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October 7, 1849: It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. Reviewers say: "A brisk, satisfying biography of a literary icon who still fascinates." (Kirkus Reviews) |
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