6 Intimate, Powerful Memoirs to Read This Month

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6 Intimate, Powerful Memoirs to Read This Month
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From Lola Kirke, Josephine Baker, Omar El Akkad, and more.

“Memories are conjurings,” writes Lidia Yuknavitch in this quicksilver, expansive exploration of grief and hauntings , sexuality, storytelling, and more. Josephine Baker’s tale of performance and resistance has been translated from the French into English for the first time by Anam Zafar and Sophie R. Lewis, with an introduction by Ijeoma Oluo.

In 1957, Rich Benjamin’s charismatic maternal grandfather served as president of Haiti for 19 days before his leadership ended in a violent coup; through deep research, Benjamin plumbs secrets—both familial and national. In uninhibited essays, country singer and Mozart in the Jungle star Lola Kirke sifts through a Manhattan childhood redolent with Joan Didion and Courtney Love, and a coming of age onscreen and through song.

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