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Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute

This strange, visceral, haunting memoir finds 83-year-old French writer Nathalie Sarraute looking back on her first 12 years. But, unlike most memoirs, Childhood is not written by a single author;...

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home is a memoir told in the form of a graphic novel, a collage of comic artist Alison Bechdel's impressions of her life — from her childhood spent growing up in a funeral home to her college years...

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The Dog of the Marriage

Amy Hempel writes all her stories in her head before she touches the page, and reading her recite her work is somewhere in between eavesdropping on a woman talking to her dog and hearing an agnostic...

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The Paying Guests

I could not put down this tender, haunting, harrowing novel — I read it by campfire light, I read it walking down the street, I read it in bed till my eyes wouldn't stay open. Waters creates a world...

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