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#1 My father was a monk. He loved to tell stories about his decade with the church, and how he couldn't stand the fried chicken at the monastery. I always found the monastery intriguing, because I thought it was somewhere you went for kicks.
#2 My father's memoir describes a family split between prudent Prairie Home Companion types on one side and wild gumbo wastrels on the other....
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"In this searching and funny memoir, based off his popular New Yorker article, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. Life is difficult enough as a precocious, temperamental, and insufferable six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey. But then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico, far from classical music's nerve centers, and he has to please a new taskmaster while navigating cacti, and the perils of junior high school....
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