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Tails & Tales: Memoirs that Inform and Inspire
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IN-BETWEEN ATTENDING OUR SUMMER READING programs and events, try passing the time with these stories of inspiration.
from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself.
5. “The Man Who Ate Too Much: the Life of James Beard” by John Birdsall (2020) 1. “Children of the Land: A Memoir” by “The Man Who Ate Too Much” brings to life a Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (2020) towering figure who represents the best in An unforgettable memoir from a prize- eating and has never been fully understood . winning poet about growing up undoc6. “One Life” by Megan Rapinoe and umented in the United States. Emma Brockes (2020) 2. “Four Hundred Souls: A Community Megan Rapinoe, an Olympic gold medalist History of African America, 1619-2019” and two-time Women’s World Cup chamedited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. pion, writes about her life. She urges us to Blain (2021) ask ourselves, “What will you do with your Ninety extraordinary voices tell the epic one life?” story of the 400-year journey of African Americans from Jamestown’s first slaves in 7. “Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked 1619 to today’s Black Lives Matter movement. Their Lives to Defy the Nazis” by Jeffrey H. Jackson (2020) 3. “Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind “Paper Bullets” tells of an audacious of an American Family” by Robert Kolker campaign undertaken by two French (2020) women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian Robert Kolker uncovers the heartrending story of a mid-century American family avant-garde artists to write and distribute insults against Hitler and the Nazis. with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. 8. “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle (2020) “Untamed” is an intimate memoir of how 4. “How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir” one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her by Saeed Jones (2019) Haunted and haunting, “How We Fight for children, but one who shows them how to fully live. Our Lives” is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man 16 INTERSECTIONS MAGAZINE
9. “They Called Us Enemy” by George Takei et al (2019) George Takei’s stunning graphic memoir recounts his childhood imprisonment in American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty and love. 10. “When Harry Met Minnie: A True
Story of Love and Friendship” by Martha Teichner (2021) Martha Teichner writes a touching memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together. I | S — LARA LUCK, collection development supervisor
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