Results for Nonfiction + Controversial Subjects, set in Midwest

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  • Hunger
    Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
    Roxane Gay
    Paperback: 06/12/2018
     
    From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-...
  • Priestdaddy
    Priestdaddy: A Memoir
    Patricia Lockwood
    Paperback: 05/01/2018
     
    From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny ...
  • Hillbilly Elegy
    Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    J.D. Vance
    Paperback: 05/01/2018
     
    #1 New York Times Bestseller, named by the Times as one of the "6 books to help understand Trump's win"
  • Riverine
    Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here
    Angela Palm
    Paperback: 08/16/2016
     
    A spellbinding memoir of place, young love, and a life-altering crime.
  • A Million Little Pieces
    A Million Little Pieces
    James Frey
    Paperback: 05/11/2004
     
    Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation ...

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