For all who have lost a beloved parent, see below. Not quite a memoir, but it should be:
Deeper than Dead, by Tami Hoag:
"Her mother had always been her sounding board, her voice of reason, her best friend. . . " (26). She goes on to say her her father put her mother on a pedestal in public,and belittled her in private. The whole passage reminded me of Sylvia Plath, and other things.
For those who love collecting, especially stamps, I recommend Simon Garfield's memoir, The Error World; An Affair with Stamps. I've had a collection since I was ten, and my dad and uncle had one before me that I inherited. I've kept it up, and traded and made friends, but I guess I'm more casual in the lives of people as hard core as Mr. Garfield. This is also a memoir of passion and obsession; the use of "affair" is no accident. His prose and story are riveting, and fascinate you, even if you don't collect a thing.
An interesting review in the NY Times Review of books, Sept. 4, is a review of Justin Vivian Bond's memoir Gender Free, about a transichild growing up during teh AIDS crises.
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