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A collection of the writer's previously uncollected essays, from 1968 to 2000, that traces her journey as a writer.
A beautifully written story of identity, Aftershocks follows the peripatetic upbringing of the author, the daughter of a Ghanaian man and Armenian-American woman—from Italy and England to Ghana, Ethiopia and Uganda to the U.S.
A prequel to The Great Gatsby that puts the focus on Nick Carraway. Before he landed in West Egg, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dizzying Jazz Age, he was a soldier in the trenches of WWI, in love with the bohemian Ella…
A freelance journalist reflects on her time at an English boarding school, where the girls flip their hair and chain-smoke cigarettes and scandal thrives…
The actress' memoir, from her childhood in India to the beauty pageants to the A List in Hollywood.
