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Life Among the Savages

June 14, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

As a site, we’ve been on a Shirley Jackson kick, and I have had this old copy of her domestic memoir sitting on my shelf for a few years. Simply put this book is super weird and super funny. There’s something that happens when I watch old movies, read old books, and think about old times. I convince myself that I am looking at life in a foreign culture and from a foreign perspective, like there’s nothing to be actively learned about humanity from it. Instead, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: life among the savages, Shirley Jackson

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:236 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: life among the savages, Shirley Jackson ·
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