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Memoirs Too Powerful to Put Down
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Memoirs Too Powerful to Put Down

If Only You People Could Follow Directions

By Jessica Hendry Nelson

Publisher: Counterpoint
Pages: 256
Tags: Nonfiction Memoir
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A quirkily mesmerizing debut memoir about a dysfunctional family wracked by alcoholism and drug addiction. Bittersweet and wryly funny.

— Abbe Wright

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