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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Greely
Lucy Grealy’s childhood cancer left her with a facial disfigurement. For everyone who has ever felt inadequate, Autobiography of a Face provides an unsentimental experience that challenges our own feelings of not measuring up. A ground-breaking memoir of self. Lucy Grealy (1963-2002) was an award-winning poet and a memoirist. In addition to Autobiography of a Face, she was the author of the essay collection As Seen on TV: Provocations.
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The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Marry Karr reinvigorated the genre of memoir with her funny, sad, and glaringly honest portrayal of a childhood. Karrâs comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salingerâsâa hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as âfunny, lively, and un-put-downableâ (USA Today)Â today as it ever was.