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A review by inthecommonhours
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
4.0
Read it in one sitting (very short) but so well done. Brilliant and heart-breaking and well-worth reading.
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Mimi read the Oprah excerpt (after Mom read it while visiting her) and called me...which sent me searching because I knew I had saved that memoir issue (Liz used to gift us all with O magazine every year).
I knew McCraken because of Truth & Beauty, and admit I approached the bit that I read with skeptism (everybody's got a memoir, now, right?)...but immediately loved her writing. And then cried my eyes out.
Haven't read it yet, but it's on my 'to buy' list, vs the library list. Also want to read her Giant's House novel...
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Mimi read the Oprah excerpt (after Mom read it while visiting her) and called me...which sent me searching because I knew I had saved that memoir issue (Liz used to gift us all with O magazine every year).
I knew McCraken because of Truth & Beauty, and admit I approached the bit that I read with skeptism (everybody's got a memoir, now, right?)...but immediately loved her writing. And then cried my eyes out.
Haven't read it yet, but it's on my 'to buy' list, vs the library list. Also want to read her Giant's House novel...