''An Abbreviated Life'' is a
memoir
A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autob ...
by
Ariel S. Leve. In this book she tells the story of her childhood and her mother,
American poet
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.
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I–J
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Q
*George Quasha (born 1942 in poetry, 1942)
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and
feminist
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
,
Sandra Hochman
Sandra Hochman (born September 11, 1936 in New York City) is an American author, poet, screenwriter, lyricist and documentary film maker. Her first autobiographical novel ''Walking Papers'' was very well received and Philip Roth called it a mas ...
. She described the physical and emotional abuse she faced in her childhood, and how she grew up in a dysfunctional family.
References
2016 non-fiction books
American memoirs
HarperCollins books
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