Word: memoir
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...Americans who claim Asian descent. But it is also a family narrative: the story of Liu's immigrant Chinese parents and their assimilation into American society, and Liu's own struggle to transcend his race while not selling out his heritage. The result is a unique--and uniquely American--memoir, suffused with smarts, elegance and warmth...
Because Lewis is much more a man of action than of reflection, his autobiography, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Simon & Schuster; 496 pages; $26), co-authored with Michael D'Orso, at times degenerates into a travelogue of movement battlefields. But it also provides a stirring portrait of the power of moral consistency and courage. Lewis and SNCC colleagues like Diane Nash and Robert Moses were willing to put their lives and bodies on the line at a time when both white political leaders like John Kennedy and established civil rights groups like the N.A.A.C.P. urged caution...
Anyone want to buy a memoir by a guy named McCourt? Silly question. Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, a haunting account of his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, has been translated into 19 languages, including Turkish and Croatian, and has sold 4 million copies worldwide. The book has spent 90 weeks at or near the top of the New York Times Book Review best-seller list and earned its author, 67, a clutch of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize...
...does Frank's pandemic success mean that people will rush out and purchase a memoir by his younger brother Malachy, 66, specifically A Monk Swimming (Hyperion; 290 pages; $23.95)? This question is slightly less silly; Malachy's publisher has wagered a $600,000 advance to its novice author in hope that the answer will be a cash-register-ringing yes. And in his acknowledgments at the beginning of the book, Malachy thanks Frank "for opening the golden door." It's not hard to figure out what he means...
...small children with her. He makes no connection between his own alcohol-fueled irresponsibilities and those of his father, whom he blames bitterly for abandoning his mother and siblings. If he has not learned anything from pondering his disruptive behavior of more than three decades ago, perhaps a memoir is premature...