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Non-Fiction Round Up

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor, Joshua Lyon

Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz

November 13, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

(5 stars) A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor, Joshua Lyon I LOVED this book. LOVED it. It’s funny and smart and made me cry sad tears AND happy tears. If you know nothing about Edie Windsor, you probably at least know this: she brought the case United States v. Windsor to the Supreme Court in 2013, defeating section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act. Stories about Windsor and her wife Thea were everywhere — they had been together for 40 years, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Edie Windsor, Jaquira Díaz, Jeannie Vanasco, Joshua Lyon

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:217 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Edie Windsor, Jaquira Díaz, Jeannie Vanasco, Joshua Lyon ·
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