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Author:
Stephanie Danler
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Date:
May 19, 2020
The bestselling author of the novel Sweetbitter recalls growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of her attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past.
What The Reviewers Say
... fearless, insightful, devastating, and beautiful. It broke my heart, and it twisted up my insides. The stories are still sitting in my gut.
In her carefully concocted but unfermented new memoir...the ensuing portrait Danler composes of herself resembles a Cubist Picasso, broken into bits and incongruously reassembled.
... can feel both piecemeal and blinkered by its own privilege (private schools, last-minute trips to Spain), but it’s powerful, too: a raw, often lyrical portrait of pain, loss, and learning to let go..
The memoir centers on damaging behavior—substance abuse, physical abuse and painful cycles of neglect—but is written in gripping and refreshingly plain terms.
