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About Alice
Calvin Trillin
★★★★· Published 2006· 78 pages
Calvin Trillin's tiny, tender tribute to his late wife. You'll cry, and it's worth it.
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Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
Helen Ellis
Helen Ellis is so funny. These are warm, wickedly funny little essays about staying happily married.
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Zauner — the musician behind Japanese Breakfast — wrote this memoir after losing her Korean mother to cancer. It’s about grief, yes, but mostly it’s about food as love language, and what happens when the person who fed you is gone. Multiple friends have finished it in a single sitting, then called their mothers. You will too.
Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults
Jessica Pan
Two friends' real letters to each other as they flail through their twenties abroad. Funny and very relatable.