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Ten Minutes from Home: A Memoir
by Beth Greenfield
Grief - Honest and Raw (4/25/2010)
Beth Greenfield can certainly write. She is able to exorcise emotions from her early adolescence with both compassion for her young self and a relentless, brutal honesty. Readers may find solace in her deeply personal reactions to the death of her brother and friend asmore
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
by Mohammed Hanif
Funny but long (4/22/2008)
Here's a treat for fans of political satire, and for once the subject is not the United States government. Hanif has a great time with the political, cultural, and religious underpinnings of Pakistan. For the first half of the book I was entranced. But after a while it'smore
Before I Die
by Jenny Downham
Death for real (9/19/2007)
I read this in one sitting - it's just that compelling. At the same time, it was hard to reach the end of the book, since the narrator's death was so certain. It was also hard to read through all my tears! But it was a good kind of grief, the kind that calls to mind themore
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