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67/100Scholars
Author:
David Adjmi
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
June 23, 2020
In a world where everyone is inventing a self, curating a feed and performing a fantasy of life, what does it mean to be a person? In his debut memoir, playwright David Adjmi explores how human beings create themselves, and how artists make their lives into art.
What The Reviewers Say
The threads of playwright David Adjmi’s debut memoir are woven tightly.
... ushers readers into fundamental questions of identity, community and belonging. The writing is vibrant, edgy, scenic and exciting. The figures of Adjmi’s childhood come off the page as though the reader is meeting them in person. Adjmi also emerges as a sensitive and faithful—and funny!—narrator who is keen to notice his own reactions to particular moments and perceptive about how his early experiences fostered a kaleidoscopic inner life that informed both the formation of his identity and the art he would later make..
So suffused with Adjmi’s skill for drama and spectacular vocabulary is this gimlet-eyed personal history of making and being made by art, it is emotionally vast and utterly triumphant..
... the author chronicles in visceral detail his anguished youth and laborious search for his true identity.
