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Swallow the Ocean
Laura M. Flynn
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Lit
Mary Karr
Memoir
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Lit
The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry , her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and to her astonishing resurrection.
Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott," with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, "Give me chastity, Lord-but not yet!" has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity.
Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of...
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#9
Writing the Memoir
Judith Barrington
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#8
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
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#3
Memoir
Ben Yagoda
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#2
Modern American Memoirs
Annie Dillard
Cort Conley
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Angel on Board was originally released in 1998. It has gone through many evolutions to get to its coveted 'Most Positive Book Ever Written Status.'
The author took 3 years for EJ Thornton to write it and she wrote it completely in secret. She had to because her then alcoholic husband was the antagonist of the book. She wrote it to him, hoping he would read it someday and understand that when he used grief as an excuse to stay drunk, he WAS NOT honoring those who had passed on.
Unsuccessful in that quest, the author released it to the world, where it was received with open arms and the healing power of its pages became immediately and perpetually apparent.
It is a fantastic, fun and easy read - at the surface level, but it is a healer when it gets into the hands of anyone with an unresolved grief issue, even if the only reason the grief is unresolved is that it is recent.
Angel On Board will introduce you to a new dimension of reality and you will never be the same again...
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Lucky
Alice Sebold
Memoir
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#1
Three Little Words
Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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