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Biography and Memoir June 2020
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| Hollywood Park by Mikel JollettWhat it's about: indie musician Mikel Jollett's traumatic 1970s childhood in the Synanon cult; after escaping, his family battled poverty, mental illness, addiction, and abuse, and Jollett later found solace in music.
Read it for: Jollett's richly detailed account of self-discovery and healing.
For fans of: candid memoirs of surviving cults (like Ruth Wariner's The Sound of Gravel) and family dysfunction (like Tara Westover's Educated). |
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| The Fixed Stars by Molly WizenbergWhat it is: bestselling food writer Molly Wizenberg's thought-provoking journey toward understanding her sexual fluidity.
How it began: Surprised by the revelation that she was attracted to another woman, Wizenberg and her husband Brandon agreed to an open relationship, an arrangement that left Wizenberg confronting what she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wanted from her life.
Reviewers say: "This is a spirited, terrifyingly courageous, and searingly honest memoir of discovering sexual identity and strength" (Booklist). |
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Books You Might Have Missed
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| Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. CarlWhat it is: an incisive memoir in essays chronicling author P. Carl's midlife gender transition.
What's inside: Carl's conflicted reckoning with the white male privilege he now experiences, as well as how his understanding of toxic masculinity changed post-transition.
Want a taste? "What do I know about America's fraught relationship with gender having inhabited these two bodies?" |
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