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Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady cover image

Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure

Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

CHAPTER

The Power of Altruism

"I would restore his legacy, fix this project that he'd never finished," Franco-Hara writes. "Most human beings do very little from one pure motivation," the author says of her work. The book was written as a way to deal with complicated feelings she had about her father and how they made me make choices in my life.

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