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Family memoirs and confessions in essays.
"True Crimes: A Family Album" could be a good read for those who enjoy thought-provoking and honest exploration of family relationships and dynamics. The author writes with vulnerability and clarity about her own family experiences and challenges readers to reflect on their own. The most unique feature of this book is the author's unflinching and heartfelt honesty in exploring complex and taboo topics within her family. Readers may appreciate the author's insights about love, loss, and the enduring impact of family dynamics on individuals.
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ISBN: 9781400063482
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $37.24
Authors:
Kathryn Harrison
Publisher: Random House
Date of Publication: 2016-04-05
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.45
(rated by 264 readers)
Description
From acclaimed literary talent and New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Harrison comes a collection of provocative and illuminating essays. In True Crimes, conventional ideas of love, loss, forgiveness, and memory are transformed—complicated, upended, and reimagined by one of the foremost memoirists of our time. In essays written over the course of more than a decade, Kathryn Harrison has created a beautifully detailed and rigorously honest family album. With tenderness and wisdom, compassion and humor, Harrison writes about the things we don’t always discuss, casting light on what lurks beneath the surface of everyday life, sifting through the artifacts of memory to find what haunts and endures. Both serious and surprising, these essays capture the moments and impulses that shape a family. In “Keeping Vigil,” Harrison reflects on the loss of her beloved father-in-law, and how he managed to repair something her own father had broken. In “Holiday Lies,” she describes the uneasy but necessary task of lying to her children about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, withholding certain truths to protect their innocence. In “Mini-Me,” she writes about how the birth of her youngest daughter—who used to pry open a sleeping Harrison’s eyes—finally allowed her to understand her own mother’s complicated attitudes about parenting. And in “True Crime,” Harrison writes for the first time in the almost two decades since the publication of The Kiss about her affair with her father, and how she has reckoned with the girl she once was. With gorgeous prose and unflinching self-examination, True Crimes is a powerful and unforgettable literary tour de force.
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