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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
Claire Dederer
★★★★· Published 2017· 258 pages· read 2018
A midlife memoir reckoning with sex, rage, and the wild girl she used to be. Dederer is brave and very sharp.
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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.
★ 5Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton
A woman finds a newborn hare and, against the odds, ends up raising it. Gentle, patient, unexpectedly moving nature writing.