Books like Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
12 books with a reading profile close to Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Nora Ephron examines the physical humiliations and domestic frustrations of aging, focusing on the specific maintenance required to camouflage a sagging neck.
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2
Beautiful Country
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Qian Julie Wang was seven when she and her parents left China for New York in 1994, where her mother and father, a former professor and a professional, became undocumented workers.
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3
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
memoir, narrative
In 1960, John Steinbeck drove a custom-built camper truck named Rocinante across nearly forty states to reconnect with the country he felt he no longer understood.
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4
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
memoir, narrative
Fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist born with physical vulnerabilities, lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation where poverty and alcoholism are pervasive.
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5
Shantaram
memoir, narrative
Lin Ford, a convicted bank robber, escapes an Australian prison and flees to Mumbai, India, where he reinvents himself within the city’s complex social tiers.
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
memoir, narrative
The collection compiles fiction and non-fiction written by Marina Keegan before her death just days after graduating from Yale.
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7
My Life in France
by Julia Child
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
After moving to post-war Paris in 1948 with her husband Paul, Julia Child discovers a lifelong vocation in French cuisine.
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Taste: My Life Through Food
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Stanley Tucci chronicles his life through the lens of specific meals, beginning with his childhood in an Italian-American household in Westchester, New York.
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A Girl Named Zippy
by Haven Kimmel
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Haven Kimmel recounts her childhood in Mooreland, Indiana, a town of three hundred people during the 1960s and 70s.
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10
Clapton: The Autobiography
by Eric Clapton
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Eric Clapton details his life from a secluded childhood in Surrey to his status as a central figure in blues and rock music.
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11
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
In 1960s Minnesota, a group of women in a suburban neighborhood form a book club that evolves into a lifelong friendship.
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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
by Leah Remini
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Leah Remini details her thirty-year history within the Church of Scientology, beginning with her childhood move to the Sea Org in Clearwater, Florida.
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