She’s Come Undone
Wally Lamb, 1992
A lonely Connecticut girl grows up amid family secrets, television dreams and bottomless wanting, narrating her life with raw, comic honesty.
Wally Lamb
Feels like family, memory and nostalgia.
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Wally Lamb was teaching high-school English when his debut appeared in 1992; Oprah’s Book Club later turned it into a bestseller.
The war between a father's absence and a mother's silence, told by a child.
I wanted my father to be at home laughing with Ma on Saturday afternoons, instead of with Mrs. Masicotte, who had yellowy white hair and a fat little body like Zahra’s. My father called Mrs. Masicotte by her first name, LuAnn; Ma called her, simply, “her.” “It’s her,” she’d tell Daddy whenever the telephone interrupted our dinner. Books by Wally Lamb
I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb, 1998
A twin brother's breakdown, a family's buried history, and one man's long climb toward forgiveness—told with the pace of a page-turner.
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