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Writing For A Better Future

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

I'm rereading the book that made you famous, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Rereading your book makes me think that that's what writing a memoir in your 20s did for you at a time when your life was a bit out of control. Is it? Yeah. I mean, when I talk to kids about writing their story, I have some expertise in this. My parents died when I was 21 and within six weeks of each other and I spent, gosh, eight nine years after that trying to make sense of it. The next book takes place in Afghanistan and then there is a new book coming out from the Bronx. These are all books that

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