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◇ introspective mood ◇

Examining the inner life

The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion (2005)
◆ memoir
After her husband dies suddenly, Didion examines grief with her famous clear-eyed prose.
"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends."
Fun Home
by Alison Bechdel (2006)
◆ graphic memoir
A cartoonist unravels her father's secret life and her own coming of age in their funeral home.
"I had killed him, perhaps not literally, but by participating in the family lie that kept him from fulfilling himself."
The Collected Schizophrenias
by Esmé Weijun Wang (2019)
◆ essays
Sharp, vulnerable essays on living with schizoaffective disorder and the many meanings of madness.
"I wanted there to be a story, a clear arc of events, when that has never been the shape of my life."
H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald (2014)
◆ memoir
Training a goshawk through grief, weaving natural history with the story of T.H. White.
"The wild can be known, but it can never be entirely explained."
Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit (2014)
◆ essays
Sharp essays on silence, speech, and the spaces women navigate between being heard and being dismissed.
"Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender."
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