The Boys of My Youth

Written by:
Jo Ann Beard
Narrated by:
Jo Ann Beard

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
1
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1
Release Date
June 2016
Duration
7 hours 54 minutes
Summary
The 'utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful' collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation.

Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beard's universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men who replace them -- are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death.
The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today.
'A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments.' --Harper's Bazaar
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Dahlia F.

This book was recommended to me by two women who are both writing professors and each said this was their favorite memoir. So I had to read it for myself and I would answer the same if prompted. The author is descriptive, imaginative, and never self-indulgent. The memories she shares describe everyday life with the beauty of poetry and painting together in one. She is a master. Highly recommend!

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