141. Hard-Knock Life Memoirs

Jeannette Walls (Photo Matt Eich for New York Times)

Sometimes the most fraught journey is simply making it to adulthood. In this week’s mini, we talk about authors who survived unusual and/or traumatic childhoods and used their experiences to write engrossing, and often healing, works of art. 

In this episode:

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

An Abbreviated Life by Ariel Leve

The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames by Justine Cowan

Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton

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142. Miriam Karpilove — Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love with Jessica Kirzane

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140. The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa