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Autobiography of a Face: A Candid Exploration of Identity
What is it like to navigate a world obsessed with outward beauty as a young woman with a severe facial disfigurement? The candid memoir Autobiography of a Face explores the toll – both physical and emotional – of multiple reconstructive surgeries. Ride through the hope and despair of a girl and then a young woman who wants nothing more than to be “normal,” but who will be anything but.
Hear the Wind Sing: The Evolution of a Writer
This is the novella that started it all, launching Haruki Murakami’s career as a writer, an outcome that he likely didn’t anticipate as he spent one hour writing each night after closing the jazz club that he and his wife owned in a suburb of Tokyo. The Story of Haruki Murakami and Hear the Wind…
Life of Pi: A Courageous Undertaking with Beautiful Results
Life of Pi is a book that will make you question life, death, and your very existence. Life of Pi Plot (No Spoilers) It takes an act of courage to write a book in which the vast majority is written with the character floating alone and lost at sea with nobody to speak to –…
The French Lieutenant’s Woman: An Age-Old Plot With A New Voice
The French Lieutenant’s Woman will have you bargaining with God. You see, the narrator views himself as God (“the novelist is still a God since he creates”) and, therefore, he hovers above the storyline and pops in – as a perfect un-God-like character – and out of the plot at will, even inserting himself into…
