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Growing Up Haunted
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsWitty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
by William Fiennes
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsA bittersweet description of an ancient family house in an enchanted setting, and of growing up with a damaged brother.
by Norah Vincent
Published Dec 2006
Read ReviewsHaving gone where no woman (who wasn't an aspiring or actual transsexual) has gone for any significant length of time, let alone eighteen months, Norah Vincent's surprising account is an enthralling reading experience and a revelatory piece of anecdotally based gender analysis that is sure to spark fierce and fascinating conversation.
by Jeannette Walls
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the author the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Sep 2003
Read ReviewsTo understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
by Haven Kimmel
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsThis witty and lovingly told memoir takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period--people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
by Jennifer Lauck
Published Sep 2001
Read ReviewsAn incandescent memoir of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.
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