I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy recalls child acting, her mother's control, eating disorders, and the slow work of getting free.
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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
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank's diary explained: two years in the Secret Annex, the entries on fear and boredom, what Otto Frank cut, and why the book still reads like a…
1,913-word summary · 9 min read