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Related ReadingsBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRBragg, Rick. All Over But the Shoutin’. NY: Random House, 1997.Drawing on firsthand knowledge of how poverty can deform lives, this memoir of a Southern youth pays tribute to an indomitable mother and struggles to forgive a drunken father. Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. NY: Knopf, 2005. This book is a memoir of a husband’s death, a daughter’s illness, and the author’s effort to make sense of a time that made no sense. Karr, Mary. The Liar’s Club. NY: Viking, 1995. An edgy, darkly comic memoir of an upbringing with a volatile but loving family full of alcoholism, violence and insanity. NONFICTIONMiller, Alice. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.Miller paints a jolting picture of the violent world each generation helps shape when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. She also offers a way out by striving to resensitize the child in the adult, to unlock an emotional life frozen in repression. daCosta Nunez, Ralph. The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America NY: Insight Books,1996. The author describe how the face and nature of homelessness has changed. Now, the typical homeless family head-of-household is a young, single woman without a high school diploma or substantial work experience. McGready, Sr. Rose Mary. God Isn’t Done With Me NY:Coverant House,1993. Stories from the Covenant House crisis shelter where more than 35,000 kids are lovingly rescued each year. FICTIONEdwards, Kim. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. NY: Viking, 2005.A husband’s choice to give away his Down syndrome daughter deceptively becomes the defining moment of a family’s life. David's undetected lie warps his marriage; he grapples with guilt; Norah mourns her lost child; and Paul not only deals with his parents' icy relationship but with his own yearnings for his sister as well. Guen, Sara. Water for Elephants: A Novel. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which the main character finds himself after joining the circus. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. Nemirovsky, Irene. Suite Francaise. NY: Knopf, 2006. This extraordinary work of fiction about the German occupation of France is embedded in a real story as gripping and complex as the invented one. Composed in 1941-42 by an accomplished writer who had published several well-received novels, these works (2 novellas) describe "daily life, the emotional life and especially the comedy it provides." CHILDREN'S BOOKSA Ceiling of Stars by Ann Howard Creel, 1999.A Rose for Abby by Donna Guthrie, 1988. Almost a Hero by Jon Neufeld, 1995. The Beggar’s Ride by Theresa Nelson, 1994. Elsa, Star of the Shelter by Jacqueline Wilson, 1996. Erik is Homeless by Keith Elliot Greenberg, 1992. Homeless written and photographed by Bernard Wolf, 1995. The Leaves in October by Karen Ackerman, 1991. Lives Turned Upside Down: Homeless Children in their Own Words and Photographs by Jim Hubbard, 1996. Secret in St.Something by Barbara Brooks Wallace, 2001. Sophie and the Sidewalk Man Stephanie S. Tolan, 1992. OTHER RELATED READINGSYounger Readers Related ReadingsBookSuggester powered by LibraryThing: Suggestions for The Glass Castle: A Memior by Jeannette Walls http://www.librarything.com/suggester/7903 |
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