After being poisoned by pesticides used in her area, Diane Ladd's lungs were so scarred that she was given only 6 months to live. Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, was told that getting her mother walking might help and give her mother more time, so they started going for walks together. Terrified that they were …
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In a resort town on the border of North and South Korea in deep Winter, a French-Korean receptionist at a guesthouse meets a graphic novelist from France. Immediately drawn to him, she agrees to shown him around her town and hopes that he will not just see the town as she sees it, but also …
Rose Gold spent her whole life believing that she was danerously ill. Her single mother was her hero, her whole world, as she was too sick to make friends, to go to school.... but at 18, she found out that her life was far from normal, and her mother was a controlling woman who was …
Sharp Objects is Gillian Flynn's first book, and has just been made into a TV series. It's the story of Camille, a journalist, who has made an uneasy peace for herself in her new life in the city. But her past in a small town comes back to haunt her when she's assigned to cover …
In this book, Patricia Volk writes about her mother and about what she taught her about being a woman. But Patricia felt liberated when she read a biography about Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and the way she approached womanhood, feeling like she was being opened up to another way of being. It's partly a …
I loved this book. Loved loved loved it. I think it's because it's so honest and heartbreaking. Wild is the memoir of a 26 year old woman whose life falls apart, and to find herself, she hikes the PCT trail from California to Oregon alone. Four years before the hike, Cheryl lost her mother to …
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