Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother.
Reclusive south African author Clare Wald hires the unknown Sam Leroux as her official biographer but neither person acknowledges their past link that has something to do with Clare's anti-apartheid activist daughter, Laura, who went missing twenty years earlier.
Contains twenty-nine essays from various writers in which they discuss the moments they discovered they were feminists, including selections from Jessica Valenti, Rebecca Traister, Miriam Zoila P?rez, and others.
Presents the collected short stories of twentieth-century American writer Eudora Welty, and includes a selection of nine literary and personal essays, as well as a memoir of the author's childhood.
Contains a selection of contemporary critical essays on the writings of twentieth-century American author Eudora Welty, and includes an introduction, bibliographic references, and a chronology of Welty's life.