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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia
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Sandra Allen
spring22
, May 01, 2018
After hearing Sandra Allen speak at a panel discussion on Memoir at the Los Angeles Festival of Books, I read her book. It is a riveting marriage of two voices, her own and her Uncle Bob's, who was schizophrenic. Uncle Bob mailed her his story, typed in ALL CAPS and with the sort of grammar and spelling that accounts for the title, and trusted her to share it with the world. Uncle Bob did not live to see the publication of this wondrous book, but his spirit is surely soaring to see the loving job that Ms. Allen has done in remaining faithful to his story, but rounding it out with both the stories of other family members who lived with a "crazy" relative and a deep investigation into the state of mental health care (or the lack thereof) in America, including the misconceptions about schizophrenia. The writer uses two different fonts to distinguish her words from those of Uncle Bob, which you might think would be distracting, but a way turns the fonts themselves into compelling characters. While not exactly memoir, this book is a moving and memorable addition to the canon of creative nonfiction.
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
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Roz Chast
spring22
, November 11, 2014
Roz Chast has either been spying on my family or she has exquisitely rendered, in drawings and prose, the heart-wrenching, maddening, impossibly hard experience of an elderly parent's decline and death. Her cartoons are familiar to many from "The New Yorker" magazine, and they often strike a note of shared understanding. I devoured in one sitting her documentation of dealing with her elderly parents' final years in this miraculous book. If you are of the generation of grown children now finding themselves parenting their parents, this book will make you laugh, cry, and cope.
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Lost Memory of Skin
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Russell Banks
spring22
, January 30, 2013
Russell Banks gives us a convicted sex offender with whom we not only identify, but sympathize. The Kid is a memorable character in a rich and detailed novel, and against all odds, we root for his redemption. His story is gritty, sad, luckless, haunting, and sometimes pathetic, but we never lose the sense of his very real humanity. Like all of us, the Kid searches for love, touch, acceptance, and meaning in a cold and uncooperative world, and amongst surprising supporting characters. As someone who works with convicted sex offenders, I can attest that the real offenders in life are not always the convicted ones. "Lost Memory of Skin" is true to the plight of the new lepers among us.
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Kasher in the Rye
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Moshe Kasher
spring22
, July 07, 2012
The author is a stand-up comic who turns a bit serious in documenting a childhood divided between a feminist mom on the west coast and an orthodox Jewish father on the east coast. Oh, and both of his parents are deaf. This is an adolescent's tale of feeling always like the "other", which leads him to explore various escape routes into comedy, gang life, and drug and alcohol addiction. The author seems to have made it through the worst, but here's hoping for a sequel, as the book, just like life, offers no neatly tied-up, happy ending.
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Blue Nights
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Joan Didion
spring22
, January 01, 2012
I read it in one sitting - any mother whose heart has ever hurt over a despondent, conflicted daughter will feel this book deeply. No one writes with more relentless, unblinking clarity than Joan Didion.
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