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Common memoir themes include life and death, love, loss, and even religion. If you’re in the mood for something longer than six words, check out these 15 gripping memoirs by women who overcame ...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by American author Dave Eggers.Published in 2000, the book chronicles Eggers' experiences following the sudden death of both his parents and his subsequent responsibility for raising his younger brother, Christopher "Toph" Eggers.
Brown Girl Dreaming is a 2014 adolescent verse memoir written by Jacqueline Woodson. [1] It tells the story of the author’s early childhood life growing up as an African American girl in the 1960’s and depicts the events that led her to become a writer.
Examples of this kind of narrator include Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in Timequake (in this case, the first-person narrator is also the author). In some cases, the narrator is writing a book—"the book in your hands"—and therefore he has most of the powers and knowledge of the author.
Nicole Avant says her mom was big on people's words and thoughts creating their lives. Jacqueline Avant's last text before she was slain inspired her daughter's memoir.
TikTokers are posting mysterious but funny text messages from their parents. ... “My mom will sometimes text and just say, ‘We need to talk’ with no punctuation, so I have to do some high ...
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? is a 2014 graphic memoir of American cartoonist and author Roz Chast.The book is about Chast's parents in their final years. Her father, George, died at the age of 95 and her mother, Elizabeth, who worked as an assistant elementary school principal, died at the age of 97.
The Best We Could Do is a 2017 illustrated memoir written by Thi Bui. It chronicles Thi Bui's parents' life before and during the Vietnam War, their escape from Vietnam when Bui was a child, and their eventual migration to the United States as refugees. The novel was published on March 7, 2017.