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My Favourite Memoirs
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Hanni Reads
A memoir and essay collection about the authors Black identity and their experience growing up in Sudan and Canada. So beautiful!
Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Poetic, lyrical, heartbreaking!
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
So perfectly captures the fraught, loving and often strange relationship between mothers and daughters. A story about food and grief.
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Criminally underrated
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward
In my opinion, this book is practically a classic. It's a true story but it reads like a fictional novel - so captivating.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls