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How does a girl—abandoned by her mother at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is the story of Nadia creating her own solid ground across countries and continents. I know the struggle of rebuilding your life in an unfamiliar place. While some of you might be familiar with that and some might not, I hope you’ll take as much inspiration and hope from her story as I did.” —MALALA YOUSAFZAI ​ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 SELECTED BY VULTURE, TIME, ESQUIRE, NPR, AND VOGUE! Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. 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As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval–these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday). Nafisi’s intelligent and complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams of leading an important and romantic life, created mesmerizing fictions about herself, her family, and her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. Nafisi’s father escaped into narratives of another kind, enchanting his children with the classic tales like the Shahnamah, the Persian Book of Kings. When her father started seeing other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi’s complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal, as well as political, cultural, and social, injustices. Reaching back in time to reflect on other generations in the Nafisi family,Things I’ve Been Silent Aboutis also a powerful historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, which turned Azar Nafisi’s beloved Iran into a religious dictatorship. Writing of her mother’s historic term in Parliament, even while her father, once mayor of Tehran, was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable “coffee hours” her mother presided over, where at first women came together to gossip, to tell fortunes, and to give silent acknowledgment of things never spoken about, and which then evolved into gatherings where men and women would meet to openly discuss the unfolding revolution. Things I’ve Been Silent Aboutis, finally, a deeply personal reflection on women’s choices, and on how Azar Nafisi found the inspiration for a different kind of life. 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Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: go public and try to win again with the hope of inspiring the world. 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On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Armed with machine guns and grenades, the FARC took them hostage and kept them in the jungle for the next six years. After more than two years of captivity deep in the Colombian jungle, surrounded by jaguars, snakes, and tarantulas, miles from any town or hospital, Clara Rojas prepared to give birth in a muddy tent surrounded by heavily armed guerrillas. Her captors promised that a doctor would be brought to the camp to help her. But when Rojas went into labor and began to suffer complications, the only person on hand was a guerrilla wielding a kitchen knife. The guerrillas drugged Rojas with anesthetic while one of them slit open her abdomen. Her son, Emmanuel, was born by amateur cesarean section in April 2004. 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Her story traces decades — from childhood in rural Hunan and an arranged marriage bond with Snow Flower that becomes a lifelong sisterhood, through the turmoil of the Taiping Rebellion, into adulthood where she falls for a man forbidden by convention. 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Decades later, their bond is tested as the women confront loss, addiction, and the truth about their pasts in a story of redemption, sisterhood, and the enduring power of love.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2h3rs145hyx6fng6wja8m0.jpg?v=e47d4f37e3","L9L}Y#x?c%%J_cf$PMjIz3bFTDjb",1997,383,[450],{"id":451,"slug":452,"name":453},"01kx2f9psff1ztkc2xegrq12ye","rebecca-wells-u54q","Rebecca Wells",[455,459],{"id":456,"name":457,"slug":458,"is_fiction":18},33,"Contemporary Romance","contemporary-romance",{"id":460,"name":461,"slug":462,"is_fiction":18},144,"Women's Fiction","womens-fiction",[464],{"id":465,"slug":466,"name":467,"position":468,"is_main_entry":18,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kx2h3rvk1nptfmk1hjae06y8","ya-ya-sisterhood-qsbm","Ya-Ya Sisterhood","1.00",{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":118,"mood":470,"themes":471,"setting_period":7,"summary":444,"content_warnings":7},[120,184],[125,472,473,439],"found-family","multiple-povs",{"id":475,"slug":476,"title":477,"description":478,"primary_cover_url":479,"cover_blurhash":480,"first_publish_year":481,"community_rating_avg":387,"community_rating_count":195,"page_count":196,"authors":482,"genres":491,"series":498,"enrichment":499},"01kwzrfwrm5xq16vceesh1dwkv","the-war-i-finally-won-bpg8","The War I Finally Won","When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was--damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. 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From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really. Fans of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley’s life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures. In Look Alive Out There, whether it’s scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors—Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris—and crafted something rare, affecting, and true. Look Alive Out There arrives on the tenth anniversary of I Was Told There’d be Cake, and Crosley’s essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated and even funnier. And yet she’s still very much herself, and it’s great to have her back—and not a moment too soon (or late, for that matter).","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2bfznk43ek21ynnnnw9my9.jpg?v=44a8ee593e","LJLE._xX%%tS%$krMxi]xpV=R4o~",2018,257,[647],{"id":648,"slug":649,"name":650},"01kp6bp47w9safdqgdwwkjyevb","sloane-crosley-poem","Sloane Crosley",[652,653,657],{"id":148,"name":149,"slug":150,"is_fiction":19},{"id":654,"name":655,"slug":656,"is_fiction":18},119,"Humor","humor",{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":344,"complexity":7,"audience":118,"mood":660,"themes":661,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[120,123],[],{"key":663,"params":664,"works":665},"genre_mood",{"genre":33,"mood":120},[666],{"id":667,"slug":668,"title":669,"description":670,"primary_cover_url":671,"cover_blurhash":672,"first_publish_year":386,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":673,"authors":674,"genres":676,"series":679,"enrichment":680},"01kx2699c630x5n5cwwpzq5915","how-did-you-get-this-number-essays-ajak","How Did You Get this Number Essays","A brand-new book of hilarious and insightful personal essays by the iconic, irresistible Sloane Crosley. From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, the indignity of entry-level work, and the special joy of suburban nostalgia-and to a literary voice that mixed Dorothy Parker with David Sedaris and became something all its own. Crosley still lives and works in New York City, but she's no longer the newcomer for whom a trip beyond the Upper West Side is a big adventure. She can pack up her sensibility and takes us with her to Paris, to Portugal (having picked it by spinning a globe and putting down her finger, and finally falling in with a group of Portuguese clowns), and even to Alaska, where the \"bear bells\" on her fellow bridesmaids' ponytails seemed silly until a grizzly cub dramatically intrudes. Meanwhile, back in New York, where new apartments beckon and taxi rides go awry, her sense of the city has become more layered, her relationships with friends and family more complicated. As always, Crosley's voice is fueled by the perfect witticism, buoyant optimism, flair for drama, and easy charm in the face of minor suffering or potential drudgery. But in How Did You Get This Number it has also become increasingly sophisticated, quicker and sharper to the point, more complex and lasting in the emotions it explores. And yet, Crosley remains the unfailingly hilarious young Everywoman, healthily equipped with intelligence and poise to fend off any potential mundanity in maturity.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2699cn2hcq82s87dkyr84f.jpg?v=c04b44656e","L34.0aE2oyM{~Ut6M{WC?GbFkBRj",281,[675],{"id":648,"slug":649,"name":650},[677,678],{"id":654,"name":655,"slug":656,"is_fiction":18},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":118,"mood":681,"themes":682,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[120,121,123],[],{"key":684,"params":685,"works":686},"genre",{"genre":33},[687,708,730,756,777],{"id":688,"slug":689,"title":690,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":691,"cover_blurhash":692,"first_publish_year":693,"community_rating_avg":246,"community_rating_count":195,"page_count":694,"authors":695,"genres":700,"series":703,"enrichment":704},"01kx2hdzkyrb1c2em202v7bypz","the-best-american-essays-1995-jita","The Best American Essays 1995","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2hdzmezqtms6wy6pfsksed.jpg?v=31f88675d6","L3OzLv_2%e_1}ea$o|xtE1WUtPoy",1995,263,[696],{"id":697,"slug":698,"name":699},"01kjr13qm5qbwfnarygrv02xb1","jamaica-kincaid-9xuw","Jamaica Kincaid",[701,702],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":568,"name":569,"slug":570,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":118,"mood":705,"themes":707,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[706,123],"thought-provoking",[],{"id":709,"slug":710,"title":711,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":712,"cover_blurhash":713,"first_publish_year":298,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":224,"authors":714,"genres":723,"series":726,"enrichment":727},"01kx2b7n3pshwryt67jkvr9snv","money-changes-everything-x6hg","Money Changes Everything","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2b7n42db9hjrstntkjqqjm.jpg?v=6ce1fe8f52","LPQJM~%#xZtS~qQ-b^nOn4tSMxbb",[715,719],{"id":716,"slug":717,"name":718},"01kjvq4ts73egkzwjwpxabk6tj","elissa-schappell-9btn","Elissa Schappell",{"id":720,"slug":721,"name":722},"01kpgg9kqs7k7g9pcm90mewdq5","jenny-offill-o7wc","Jenny Offill",[724,725],{"id":568,"name":569,"slug":570,"is_fiction":18},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":118,"mood":728,"themes":729,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[706,123],[],{"id":731,"slug":732,"title":733,"description":734,"primary_cover_url":735,"cover_blurhash":736,"first_publish_year":737,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":738,"authors":739,"genres":744,"series":751,"enrichment":752},"01kx24mzffk61zpeptmmhf4166","against-love-a-polemic-jgfb","Against Love A Polemic","A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” (The New Yorker). Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx24mzg8wfnnbds3jgb3r4k3.jpg?v=48cfb2aea4","L7P?{s=|u3*I-Ua1XlTI.RtlnOrr",2004,224,[740],{"id":741,"slug":742,"name":743},"01kx24mzg14wnwr840tjk0bw10","laura-kipnis-qoft","Laura Kipnis",[745,746,750],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":747,"name":748,"slug":749,"is_fiction":19},103,"Society","society",{"id":314,"name":315,"slug":316,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":118,"mood":753,"themes":755,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[706,754],"satirical",[],{"id":757,"slug":758,"title":759,"description":760,"primary_cover_url":761,"cover_blurhash":762,"first_publish_year":763,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":764,"authors":765,"genres":770,"series":773,"enrichment":774},"01kx2gshg9xeqj44jw2ywvbygg","notes-of-a-native-son-s2id","Notes of a Native Son","A collection of ten essays in which James Baldwin confronts race, identity, and the Black experience in America through personal reflection and sharp social critique. The title essay recounts his father's death from a heart attack brought on by racial humiliation — an event that shapes much of Baldwin's later writing.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2gshjjc4bk46qmhnhjxbk4.jpg?v=4050619195","LAGawa7200|E}P9ZKR~C00wb-=Nz",1955,175,[766],{"id":767,"slug":768,"name":769},"01kjqz7qkxnqqk3hed63b80j54","james-baldwin-twhz","James Baldwin",[771,772],{"id":148,"name":149,"slug":150,"is_fiction":19},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":154,"complexity":7,"audience":118,"mood":775,"themes":776,"setting_period":7,"summary":760,"content_warnings":7},[437,123],[],{"id":778,"slug":779,"title":780,"description":781,"primary_cover_url":782,"cover_blurhash":783,"first_publish_year":644,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":784,"authors":785,"genres":793,"series":796,"enrichment":797},"01kx2hknpck99xtm4jzakhytfm","well-read-black-girl-qynk","Well-Read Black Girl","\"Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? In this collection of essays, black women writers shine a light on how important it is that we all--regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability--have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature. Whether it's learning about the complexities of femalehood from Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, finding a new type of love in The Color Purple, or using mythology to craft an alternative black future, the subjects of each essay remind us why we turn to books in times of both struggle and relaxation\"--Adapted from publisher description.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2hknq0wd5yb96cyn5t4yjq.jpg?v=3bb0db4d06","L2E,$$0M0iS0^cWA1QI:1,Io1Q]g",288,[786,790],{"id":787,"slug":788,"name":789},"01kx2hknprj7h092hrzqdzv37v","glory-edim-ssiq","Glory Edim",{"id":791,"slug":792,"name":789},"01kx2hknpvdhaqr4p2e7qs5k8s","glory-edim-kdo3",[794,795],{"id":568,"name":569,"slug":570,"is_fiction":18},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":154,"complexity":7,"audience":118,"mood":798,"themes":799,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[158,123],[],[]]