An intimate and uplifting book about finding renewal and hope through grief and loss. *"It was a terrible life; it was an enchanted life; it was a blessed life. And, of course, one day it ended." β*Sharon Butala In the tradition of Joan Didion's *The Year of Magical Thinking*, Diana Athill'
Where Am I Now?
β Scribed by Wilson, Mara
- Book ID
- 108794037
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 8 MB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight." βIlana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City
"Genuine and authentic, funny and heartbreaking." βJenny Lawson, author of Letβs Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy
Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly
A former child actor best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and out of place: as the only kid on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, a Valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and a grown-up the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from what she learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to discovering in adolescence that she was no longer "cute" enough for Hollywood, these essays chart her journey from...
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