8 great books about growing up differently than I grew up

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller

Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites, by Kate Christensen--I was excited to read that she lived in Jerome, AZ, a place I've been that I generally feel no one else has.

How To Catch a Frog and other stories of family, love, dysfunction, survival, and DIY, by Heather Ross



The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls--a well-told difficult childhood

A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me: A Memoir, by Jason Schmidt--engagingly crazy

A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, by Daisy Hernandez



Will not attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation, by Adam Resnick

Ordinary Light: A Memoir, by Tracy K. Smith

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