The Best Memoirs of a Generation
Remember when we all fell in love with honest, real-life stories that swept us away like our favorite novels? Here's the best of the best from the last 22 years.
By Frank McCourt
364 pages; Scribner
Because he was an Irish alchemist.
In a kind of magic trick, Frank McCourt transformed a miserable childhood in the slums of Limerick, Ireland, into a wise, funny and luminous memoir. You wonder how he survived. At least part of the answer must be storytelling. — Dawn Raffel
Published 09/13/2017
