Christine O'Brien's new book is
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing.
One of six favorite coming-of age-memoirs she tagged at LitHub:
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
I read this memoir in my MFA program and felt swallowed whole by the intensity of Grealy’s story, and by her writing style, which invites her readers into her most intimate thoughts. Though her circumstances are very specific—Cancer and disfigurement—they also feel utterly relatable as we follow her journey after she is diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer at age nine, has a third of her jaw removed, and begins a painful circuitous trek towards healing and self-acceptance. Along the way she falls in love with words, a love she uses to craft her fascinating, compelling, tragic, and ultimately transcendent, story.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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