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Memoirs Too Powerful to Put Down

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

By Ann Patchett

Publisher: Harper
Pages: 320

The author of State of Wonder examines her own life in a series of revealing essays that examines everything from her parents' divorce to her failed first marriage and her decision to become an author, despite her day job. A refreshing, smart, compassionate look back.

— Leigh Newman

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