Memoir tells of biracial angst
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"Ace of Spades" (Henry Holt &amp; Company, 302 pages, $24) &#151; David Matthews: If he has any fond memories of his early years as the pale-skinned child of a black father and a white mother, David Matthews doesn't share them.
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Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayanâs enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay (present-day Mumbai).
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As the writer delves into his wretched childhood, his operation seems less like a turning point than an overcharged symbolic event. In a curious way, this only makes the story more intriguing.
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The author of âFlower Confidential,â a book that is part confession, part exposÃ©, tours the cityâs flower district.
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Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden&#39;s 1997 bestseller about a naïve Japanese girl turned big-city working girl, should have been a cineplex slam-dunk by now, but rotating directors and some Hollywood-sized grudges have kept the novel from ...
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Lee Miller, who forged an unconventional career from New York fashion model to surrealist photographer to war correspondent, is the subject of a new retrospective examining her life and work.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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In Howard Normanâs new novel, an unlucky man takes a bride, only to trade punches with her father.
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Koren Zailckas's memoir offers a mortifyingly credible story of smart young women doing stuporous things.
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"The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 388 pages, $26), by Richard Thompson Ford: The fight against racism is nearing a crossroads, a "crisis of success" that's blurring definitions of discrimination and allowing insidious injustices to persist unaddressed.
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A former gang member could face life in prison for a jewelry heist that resembled robberies he described in a memoir about gang life.
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Reader Shivani sends us her experiences.
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Harrowing tales of physical and sexual   abuse at the heart of a best-selling memoir about growing up   inside Ireland's Roman Catholic institutions are simply not   true, the author's family said on Tuesday.
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In Charlayne Woodard's latest theater piece "Flight," she draws on the rich oral tradition of African-American folk tales to tell the story of one black community's way of dealing with the ravages of slavery prior to the Civil War.
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An authorâs throwback view on the culture of casual sex among young women is under fire.
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Oscar Hijuelos plans a companion novel to his 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner, âThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,â as well as a memoir that will recall his encounters with musicians including RubÃ©n Blades and Lou Reed, The Associated Press reported. The new novel, âBeautiful Maria of My Soul,â and the memoir, âThoughts Without Cigarettes,â were announced jointly on Tuesday by Hyperion Books, which will publish the novel in 2009, and Gotham Books, a Penguin Group (USA) imprint, which will release the memoir in 2010.
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The director James L. Brooks emerges from a painful divorce with "Spanglish," a personal film in which cultures clash about marriage, children and human frailty.