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The elements of novelist McBride's (The Nature of Water and Air) story are not unusual for a memoir: tragedy, a sense of alienation from remaining family, a self-imposed hospital stay, escape to a new place fraught with meaning, even ghostly hallucinations. But the rapid back-and-forth descriptions of the author's experience, from the teenager clawing her way forward after the tragic deaths of her parents and childhood ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More