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    All the Other Mothers Hate Me

    Thirty-one-year-old Florence, a former pop star, is going through an identity crisis. Things don't get any better once her 10-year-old son's bully goes missing. Florence would be lying if she said she...

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    Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi

    In Sarah Harman's All the Other Mothers Hate Me, Florence, an ex-pop star, clings to a notion: that one day, just like Mariah Carey, she will have what she calls her Emancipation of Mimi moment. I...

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    Saint of the Narrows Street

    Gravesend, Brooklyn is the epicenter of Risa Franzone's Italian-American working class community. Her parents live down the street from the ground floor apartment where she and her husband Sav live. ...

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    Gravesend, Brooklyn Over the Years

    Gravesend is only an hour from New York City's Grand Central Station by subway, but Manhattan 'might as well be Mars' to the characters of Saint of the Narrows Street. It is a small neighborhood in ...

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    Alligator Tears

    Colloquially, "crocodile tears" are false ones. But the emotion is all genuine in Alligator Tears. It's still an appropriate title for Edgar Gomez's second memoir, though — not just because it's...

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    The Memoir-in-Essays

    Compared to a traditional memoir, a memoir-in-essays allows for a more thematic approach and a diversity of styles and formats. It generally prioritizes ideas and memorable scenes or vignettes, and ...

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    Dreamover

    For Amber and Nico, eighth grade and middle school end on a high note: after a sugar-driven, end-of-year class trip at the beach, they confess their feelings for each other, become a couple, and spend...

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    Dreaming About Video Games: The Tetris Effect

    In Dreamover, the dreamscapes Amber and Nico experience draw heavily from the imagery and mechanisms encountered in video games. In fact, within the past few decades, scientists and researchers ...

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    Looking at Women Looking at War

    Victoria Amelina was an award-winning novelist and children's author living in Kyiv. Like so many others, her life changed on February 24, 2022, when Russian bombs began falling on her country. ...

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    A Brief History of Events Leading Up to the Russia-Ukraine War

    Victoria Amelina (1986–2023) was a Ukrainian novelist. She spent the last months of her life researching war crimes committed by Russian soldiers during their invasion of her country. Those ...

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    A Calamity of Noble Houses

    An illicit affair precipitates the drama in A Calamity of Noble Houses by Amira Ghenim. On December 7, 1935, a letter hidden between several loaves of bread arrives at the wealthy Ennaifer household. ...

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    Is Tunisian Female Independence Slipping Away?

    The Republic of Tunisia is a small country in Northern Africa. It was the birthplace of the 2010-11 Arab Spring movement, which saw uprisings due to economic hardship and corruption. Though much ...

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