Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
by Mary McCarthy |
My History
by Antonia Fraser |
Scoundrel Time
by Lillian Hellman |
How I Grew
by Mary McCarthy | 
Burning the Days
by James Salter | 
Slipstream
by Elizabeth Jane Howard | 
Seldom Disappointed
by Tony Hillerman | 
An Unfinished Woman
by Lillian Hellman |
Curriculum Vitae
by Muriel Spark | 
Kitchen Privileges
by Mary Higgins Clark | 
The Death of Santini
by Pat Conroy |
Blue Remembered Hills
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
A House Unlocked
by Penelope Lively | 
Too Close to the Falls
by Catherine Gildiner |
Under My Skin
by Doris Lessing | 
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls | 
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank | 
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi | 
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom | 
American Sniper
by Chris Kyle |
When asked to describe this book, Harrison responds, "An autobiography in which I am not the main character." In her unconventional though never arbitrary approach, she writes about memory, and since memories tend to attach themselves to "things, " she writes about collecting and acquiring them in a marvelous chapter entitled "Loot and Lists and Lust (and Things)." And since memories also attach themselves to people, in "Men and God(s)" she talks about men - those in her life and those she's wished were. She remembers the rooms of her childhood and adolescence in "Rooms: Signs and Symbols, " and since memories are also housed in our flesh, she has written "Food, Flesh, and Fashion" and "Scars and Distinguishing Marks." Her own brand of experience with the women's movement is dissected in "Home Economics, " and human frailty and illness in "Breathing Lessons."