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Sad but beautiful memoir about the relationship between two successful modern women authors.
This book details the friendship between writer Ann Patchett and writer Lucy Grealy, who wrote "Autobiography of a Face". You need to read the two books together to get a complete understanding of their lives. I really liked this book for the details on how they became writers and the struggles they went through in their personal and public lives. It really inspired me to buckle down and keep writing. In fact, I couldn't sleep last night because I kept dreaming and imagining myself writing my bo
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I am not sure I would have rated it five stars if I read it as a stand-alone but it was a very good follow up read to Autobiography of a Face. I felt it gave me a different view of Lucy Grealy which I appreciated even more than Lucy's own memoir.
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