 | Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.18 A memoir of growing up in polygamy. I believe that it's popular in part to the TV show Big Love, but it's a fascinating read. The writing isn't the best style I've ever read, but it's an interesting book nonetheless.
4.5/5 stars
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 | Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson
Buy new: $9.76 / Used from: $1.03 Wonderful. Must read
4.5/5 stars
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 | Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $3.55 Amazing memoir of a father chronicling his daughter's psychotic break and recovery. 4.5/5 stars
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 | Iran Awakening: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country by Shirin Ebadi
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.39 Memoir of a woman living in Tehran throught the middle of Khomeini's revolution and after. 4/5 stars
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 | Certain Girls: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $0.10 Surprising good. Better than her previous books, not quite as predictable.
4/5 stars
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 | The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood by Shusha Guppy
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $3.49 Memoir consisting of childhood tales from Iran before the 1979 revolution. 3/5 stars
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 | Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Silly novel, somewhat predictable
2/5 stars
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 | The Guy Not Taken: Stories by Jennifer Weiner
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 Short stories that seem to revolve around Weiner's typical lead character...an overweight Jewish girl from Philadelphia, who went to Princeton. Nothing I didn't expect, nothing spectacular
2/5 stars
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