Life Expectancy

Life Expectancy

Rachael Maddux

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Editorial:
Vanitas Books
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9798992356649
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Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking meets Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird in this millennial coming-of-age memoir, a wry rumination on growing up mortal in the American South at the turn of the 21st century, obsessed with the question of how to live when you know you’re going to die. For fans of Sloane Crosley’s Grief Is for People and Maggie O’Farrell’s I Am, I Am, I Am.

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