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Connecting

Offering readers insight and wisdom as it sparks their memories of remarkable people in their lives, Connecting chronicles the personal and familial relationships of some of America's best-loved authors.

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Among the writers contributing to this compelling anthology are Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the end of a friendship and the beginning of adulthood; Alice Hoffman, who reveals how her grandmother's legacy of advice is a testament to her immortality; and Alec Wilkinson, who explores a woman's coping with the murder of her husband.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 245 pages

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