Reckoning actually deserves all the awards it has been given, but don’t go expecting many laughs. Magda explores her father’s past as a second world war assassin in Poland, and the way his drive and perfectionism affected her as a child. She writes rivetingly about her fatness and how she holds it around her like a security blanket: […]
Biography/Autobiography
The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs
How do you deal with the fact that you’re 38 years old and have terminal cancer, and will shortly leave behind a much loved husband and two young sons? If you’re Nina Riggs, you deal with it by comforting yourself with the words of poets and philosophers and trying to love even the crappy and […]