Summer Reading List - Summer Books
Go on, take what you need. A perfect mystery, a mouthful of poetry...;O serves up a smorgasbord of the summer's best reads.
By Cathleen Medwick
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the July 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine 
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208 pages; Viking Solo theater artist Alice Eve Cohen knew that childbearing was simply impossible—her own mother had taken DES, and Alice had a deformed uterus, among other disqualifiers. So when what doctors misdiagnosed as a tumor turned out to be a 6-month fetus, the 44-year-old Cohen had to wrestle with clueless specialists, cavalier insurance companies, and her own no-see-um maternal instincts. Her darkly hilarious memoir, What I Thought I Knew (Viking), is an unexpected bundle of joy. First chapter: Read an excerpt from What I Thought I Knew Watch: Alice Eve Cohen performs a selection from the book 
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