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Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria. Her new book, educated, is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, bestinyears memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life. The book is visceral, bodily, and throbs with pain and trauma. There were new ideas in this book and i say that having read many books on writing memoir. The memoir book is wellworth tracking down if youre into this genre, or indeed any other writing based on personal, family or community history.
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