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...married someone of her choosing, raised three children, earned a university degree and braved death threats to launch an organization that helps women in Britain's South Asian community escape forced marriages. That's a success story to inspire anyone. But, as Sanghera writes in Shame, her affecting new memoir, she has never quite escaped the penumbra of her family. She has never fully recovered from their response when, shortly after running away, she phoned home offering to return. "Don't bother," her mother said. "In our eyes, you're dead...
...People primary," appearing in his swimsuit in the celebrity magazine next to such political players as Jessica Alba and Hugh Jackman. Name another '08 contender whose pecs compare favorably to Wolverine's - or another candidate who could inspire such a comparison. Some leaked excerpts from Terry McAuliffe's upcoming memoir (out officially Jan. 23) pimped Hillary and pounded a few more nails into the Kerry coffin. The installation of the Democrats as leaders of the House and Senate could mean that the G.O.P. will get a chance to run as outsiders again. Also, there's the paradigm-shifting announcement that...
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, charmed the media--including a hilarious stop on The Daily Show--while promoting his aptly titled memoir, In the Line of Fire. Guess he takes those assassination attempts with a sense of humor...
...unlikeliest literary success of 2006 is a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too. Oh, and it's a comic book: Bechdel's breathtakingly smart commentary duets with eloquent line drawings. Forget genre and sexual orientation: this is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other...
...Graduate School of Education (GSE). Introduced by GSE Dean Kathleen McCartney as a writer able “to inhabit the mind of a seven-year-old child with great authenticity,” McCourt approached the podium with no notes and only a copy of his latest memoir, “Teacher Man,” in hand. “I never thought I’d end up at Harvard. I never even went to high school,” said McCourt, beginning a speech that kept the audience laughing. Drawing on material from his memoir...