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A Memoir
by Augusten BurroughsIf you liked Running with Scissors, try these:
by Carmen Maria Machado
Published Dec 2020
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by Glen David Gold
Published Jun 2019
Read ReviewsFrom the best-selling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother.
by Maria Semple
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsA compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
by Russell Banks
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsLost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral redemption from Russell Banks.
by Kevin Wilson
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsMeet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art.
by Margaux Fragoso
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsThis extraordinary memoir is an unprecedented glimpse into the psyche of a young girl in free fall and conveys to readers - including parents and survivors of abuse - just how completely a pedophile enchants his victim and binds her to him.
by Julie Powell
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsWith the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul!
by Sean Wilsey
Published Apr 2006
Read Reviews"In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess." With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsSedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface in another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
by David Henry Sterry
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsThe funny, touching story of a sweet, wide-eyed son of Seventies Suburbia who spends a year as a teenage sex worker servicing rich, lonely women in Beverly Hills. A gripping story that explores what it means to suffer through the underbelly of the American Dream. And make it out alive.
by Antwone Quenton Fisher
Published Dec 2001
Read ReviewsThe memoir of Antwone Fisher's miraculous journey from abandonment and abuse to liberation, manhood, and extraordinary success. "A striking and original story of the journey from troubled childhood to self-aware adult."
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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