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16 Books to Watch for in May 2011

Reading My Father

By Alexandra Styron

Publisher: Scribner
Pages: 304

The Sophie's Choice author's glamorous, brilliant, drunken life, and brutally tormented mind, as recalled by his youngest child.

— Karen Holt

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