Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sedaris on French classes, family chaos, and learning to speak badly in two languages.
2,111-word summary · 9 min read
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Man's Search for Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it.
2,012-word summary · 9 min read
Born a Crime
Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto.
1,980-word summary · 9 min read
Angela's Ashes
Frank recalls Brooklyn and Limerick childhood with Angela's struggle, Malachy's drink and stories that saved him.
2,009-word summary · 9 min read
Tuesdays with Morrie
A sportswriter visits his old professor each Tuesday as ALS takes hold, talking through love, work, aging, and death in short lessons that still read clearly.
2,463-word summary · 11 min read
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy recalls child acting, her mother's control, eating disorders, and the slow work of getting free.
2,049-word summary · 9 min read
Bossypants
Tina Fey moves from Pennsylvania childhood through improv and SNL to 30 Rock in this funny 2011 memoir. Expect backstage stories, jokes about work and…
2,301-word summary · 10 min read
Becoming
Michelle Obama traces her path from South Side Chicago through Princeton, Harvard law and the White House years in this warm, candid memoir of family, work and…
2,143-word summary · 10 min read
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls's memoir of a childhood spent hungry and moving, from a stove fire at three to a Bronx apartment and parents on the street.
2,255-word summary · 10 min read
Night
Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the book carries the year…
2,594-word summary · 12 min read
Educated
Educated retold: Idaho scrapyard, no school, BYU, Cambridge, break with father and brother.
1,931-word summary · 9 min read
Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love retold: divorce, Italy for pleasure, India for practice, Bali for balance.
1,962-word summary · 9 min read