Four Can’t Miss Memoirs
Tired of rereading your James Frey and Augusten Burroughs? Check out these memoirs to get your fix of the every day sublime.
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Operating Instructions
Notorious for, as one Powell’s interviewer puts it, writing cleaner than she lives, Anne Lamott’s not your typical Christian. Nor, in fact, is her memoir, Operating Instructions necessarily about faith, in a conventional sense. It’s a diary about single motherhood, addiction, and finding hope in a backdrop of chaos should top everyone’s reading list.
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Autobiography of a Face
Imagine being diagnosed with a potentially terminal disease before your tenth birthday. Now imagine surviving – the only catch is you have to give up a third of your jaw. Breathtakingly candid, beautifully written, Grealy’s memoir about insecurity and guilty pleasures was selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by The Voice Literary Supplement and USA Today.
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Cockeyed
Would you rather be born blind, never knowing what you’ve missed, or experience sight for a brief window before having it wrenched from you? Some questions you’ll ask yourself when you read Canadian wunderkind Ryan Knighton’s comic memoir about slowly going blind.
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Foreskin’s Lament
“Auslander writes like Philip Roth’s angry little nephew”. So says Tom Perrotta, with more than a pinch of accuracy. Hilarious and heartbreaking, Auslander’s quest to make peace with a spiteful God before his first son is born will make teach you a thing or two about finding your own kind of faith.
Shalom Auslander, Ryan Knighton , Lucy Grealy, Anne Lamott
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