Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated

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I’ve enjoyed reading the books listed in the subject line. Can anyone recommend similar titles?

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Dry by Mary Carr is wonderful

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Anonymous wrote:Dry by Mary Carr is wonderful

Also The Liars Club by her is good.

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Maid and educated cannot hold a torch to the glass castle

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I thought Ugly Cry and Rabbit were good memoirs. Somewhat similar vein

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All of those memoirs, which I also really liked, involve poverty and dysfunctional families. I'd suggest Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck.

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I loved Maid ➕ Glass Castle and would love to hear some recommendations as well!

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Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Breaking Night by Liz Murray
Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra
Pieces of My Mother by Melissa Cistaro
The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

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Hollywood Park by Mikel Jolett. Crazy and amazing life story. Born into a cult and continues to surprise you from there.

Crying in H Mart was also a great memoir in this vein.

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Trevor Noah’s memoir called Born a Crime is fantastic. About growing up mixed race in South Africa under Apartheid. His mother (who was Black) could not be seen with him in public because it was against the law since they were different races. It was hilarious and heartbreaking and very insightful.

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Maybe nickel and dimed? It’s different because she was a journalist who deliberately embedded herself in a low income life to report on it.

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“Running with Scissors” or “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (this one is essays but they’re autobiographical).

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Solito

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Finding Me by Viola Davis

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Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It's about a black American.

In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63026545-heavy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=geRbSLyVki&rank=1