To me, the book read like a series of disconnected lectures by a professor out to dazzle an audience.
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An engrossing account of five hundred years of women’s self-portraiture.
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When the author learns of his father’s affair with Frida Kahlo, he sets out to explore her life and art, and what the events in 1939 meant to his father.
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Debut novelist Tola Rotimi Abraham explores the linkage of sex, money, religion and power in the lives of two Nigerian girls.
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Historian Sarah Knott draws on anecdote, oral history, poetry, statistics and personal experience to paint this picture of mothers’ experiences across the centuries.
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In these essays, Emily Bernard creates a memoir of her life as a girl in Nashville, graduate student at Yale and now mother, wife, friend and professor at University of Vermont. At the border where black and white Americans meet, she finds fear, anger, understanding and love.
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The Ensemble follows the principals of a string quartet from their student days into middle adulthood. Without ever sounding pretentious, Aja Gabel contemplates how her characters make meaning in their lives.
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Patricia Hampl has previously written about childhood, parochial school, her father, her Czech extended family, works of art she loves and the essayist Montaigne. In her most recent set of essays she dips into all of that, but adds a portrait of her husband, written from her new perspective as a recent widow.
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