December's 14 Must-Read Books
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The Unspeakable
By Meghan Daum
256 pages;
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Prepare yourself for this new collection from an essayist unafraid to take on the culture of sentimentality, whether gamely narrating her medically induced coma or probing her "incorrect" response to her mother's death.
— Natalie Beach
Published 11/19/2014