Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
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Jun 23 2018
isn:
9781935955962
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Everything, Everything
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Aug 27 2015
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9780553496642
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Blue Nights
Joan Didion's writing is always elegant, haunting and clever, which is true, as ever in Blue Nights. Even so, this memoir about her daughter's death is no Year of Magical Thinking (Didion's memoir about losing her husband, around the same time).
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Aug 24 2013
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978-0-307-26767-2
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Girl Who Fell from the Sky, the
The story of a more or less orphaned half Danish, half African-American adolescent getting used to life in the 'hood, sometimes challenged by and sometimes rewarded for her blue eyes and good hair, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky unfortunately isn't quite as good as scintillating as I wanted it to be. It's particularly sad because the first chapter really got me.
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Aug 7 2010
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978-1-56512-680-0