Susanna Kaysen 1994
- What it is
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A place nobody can leave · a farewell that moves you
- Genre
- Memoir
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A farewell that moves you · comforting, like coming home
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A farewell that moves you · it makes you cry, in a good way
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Melancholic and unhurried · one to read slowly
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A farewell that moves you · it's hiding a secret
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Melancholic and unhurried, but in literary fiction
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Sad, and in no hurry, but in literary fiction
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A reader shelved it with yours in Books set inside a locked psychiatric ward
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Like yours: closed setting · properly strange
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In common with yours: closed setting · odd and endearing
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Like yours: closed setting · it gets under your skin
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It leaves you shaken · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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It makes you laugh · you'll want to talk it over with someone
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It makes you cry, in a good way · a small, intimate story
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It makes you laugh · it makes you think, without a lecture
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Comforting, like coming home · it makes you laugh
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It leaves you shaken · fierce and defiant
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Sad, but it leaves you hopeful · funny and sad at once
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
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It makes you laugh · you come out liking people more
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Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
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No clean hands here · fierce and defiant
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It makes you laugh · you'll want to talk it over with someone
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It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
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It leaves you shaken · nobody is entirely good
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Comforting, like coming home · a small, intimate story
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As wry as yours, only more atmospheric and morally grey
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