Lisa Alther
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Most of us grow up knowing who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia. One day a babysitter told Lisa about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in caves. Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of her own, Lisa learned they were actually an isolated group of dark-skinned people—often with extra thumbs—living in East Tennessee. But who...
3) Bedrock
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A humorous journey from '80s Manhattan to the wild side of small-town living. Clea Shawn is exhausted by her life: her globe-trotting career as a travel photographer, her successful husband's numerous liaisons, and the unrequited love she feels for her best friend, Elke. She decides to get away from her Manhattan townhouse - and a city in the throes of the '80s - and move to Roches Ridge, the picturesque Vermont town she visits on a ski trip. Roches...
4) Other Women
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Caroline is a giver - as an ER nurse, as devoted lover to her partner, Diane, as a divorced mother of two boys, and as the daughter of world-class do-gooders - but can she accept help from others and still be herself? When trauma cases in the ER leave Caroline emotionally paralyzed and her relationship with her partner, Diane, breaks down, she knows it's time to take a look at her life and do something she'd never imagined: go to therapy. Her therapist,...
5) Kinflicks
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Lisa Alther's classic coming-of-age novel set amidst the changing times of the 1960s American South. Growing up in Tennessee in a family of privilege, Ginny Babcock's world is seemingly idyllic. Her father, the Major, runs the local plant - and, thus, the town - and her mother works on beloved home movies, or "kinflicks," as her children call them, documenting the quintessential moments of her children growing up. But her mother's camera isn't there...
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Tart-tongued Tennessean Ginny Babcock seems to live in an idyllic world-and her mother documents every moment for the family's home movies. But mother's "kinflicks" don't capture everything about Ginny. Not by a long shot. Original Sins: In this "thoroughly endearing" novel, Sally, Emily, Jed, Raymond, and Donny are friends who dream big in rural Tennessee (Chicago Tribune). But the road to reality isn't quite what they imagined. Some take the safe...
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Five childhood friends with big plans face the changing realities of life in Tennessee in the 1960s. As Sally and Emily Prince and Jed, Raymond, and Donny Tatro sit under their beloved Castle Tree in rural, segregated Tennessee, they dream big dreams. But the journey from these dreams to reality is a long one. As they move into their teens, each faces challenges they could never have imagined. Sally and Jed may take a traditional route as head cheerleader...
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New York Review Books
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2019
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Françoise Gilot’s candid memoir remains “one of the most illuminating [books] we’ve had on the mind and spirit of Picasso”—and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists (Los Angeles Times).
Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family,...
Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family,...
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Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso's...