Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated

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Anonymous wrote:The Sound of Gravel is an excellent (yet heart wrenching) memoir.

I also loved:
The Ugly Cry (funny and heart breaking)
Hunger (Roxane Gay is an incredible writer)
Somebody's Daughter

A little less dramatic but still great was Molly Shannon's memoir. Also Trevor Noah's (but do the audiobook if you can because he does the voices of everyone in the book and it's so good).

Not OP but just finished Sound of Gravel based on your recommendation. So heart-wrenching. I would totally read a follow up book by the same author.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I inhaled this book, one of my favorites that O read this year.

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I liked tattoos on the heart

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You might like Zarna Garg’s new book!

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It’s not as good as some of these, but “wanted, Toddler’s personal assistant” has some similar themes.

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Finding Me by Viola Davis

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Anonymous wrote:You might like Zarna Garg’s new book!

This one was so good!

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Good Morning, Monster was excellent. Not a memoir exactly but a therapist tells the "heroic" stories of 5 patients who are faced with issues in adulthood due to suffering abuse or negligence during childhood. The full title is Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery. Well-written. I'd like to read the therapist/author's own memoir at some point.

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Not a memoir, but non-fiction

Invisible Child, a journalist follows an 11 year old girl and her family, who are living in a homeless shelter in NYC, for 8 years

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Whiskey Tender by Deborah Taffa
Women We Buried, Women We Burned Rachel Louise Snyder
Somebody’s Daughter Ashley C Ford

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes and listen to the audio version. He reads it himself and his accents and speaking other languages makes it even better.

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Wait For Me

by Deborah Mitford: Duchess of Devonshire


Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford fictionalized account

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I inhaled this book, one of my favorites that O read this year.

Thanks for this. I adore Trevor Noah.