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Lives of Girls and Women

My Life on the Road

By Gloria Steinem

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I always thought that Gloria Steinem was a Boston brahmin. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

By Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Move over Cheryl Sandberg and Lean In! And also a finalist for the international Financial Times best business book of the year.

M Train

By Patti Smith

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Who has led a more interesting life than Patti Smith?

Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

By Rosemary Sullivan

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An uncommon perspective, expertly rendered.

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Q & A: Karen Houle

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What're your top jams for Don't-Be-Afraid-of-Feminists-Karaoke?   I think I will hum some Lhasa. Rickie Lee Jones if I am feeling pop n bluesy. And…

Q & A: Nicholas Ruddock

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These stories are told as stories rather than a novel because it never occurred to me to do otherwise when I was writing them. It…
Lives

How Can Something So Catastrophic Be So Ordinary?

Review By Barb Minett

Date: 11 Jul 2012

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Gail Caldwell met Caroline Knapp when both were in mid life stride. They clung to each other until Caroline Knapp's death 15 years later. In between they walked their dogs, discussed their writing lives, challenged their bodies by rowing and swimming, cried about their relationships with men, and shared their dance with alcoholism. This is an evocation of a deep relationship so revealing that it is rarely found outside of fiction. But death is not fiction and Caldwell's description of holding her friend's being right up until the last moment when she disappears will unhinge anyone who has accompanied a loved one in their travel to the abyss of the dead. You will pass this book on to many others!

- Barb Minett

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