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In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe
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Mar 03, 2013

it was amazing
Read from March 03 to 08, 2013

An incredibly polarizing writer which makes Roiphe an interesting and provocative essayist. I didn't always agree with her (it's hard to imagine any reader would) but I appreciated her precision and her bravery. And I suppose I enjoyed her repeated take-downs of the smug, bourgeois conventionality of the urban liberal class. The personal essays are marginally better than the literary essays but the book was a terrific read throughout. Highly recommended.
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