NYT Notable Books 2020 - Nonfiction

 

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1. The dragons, the giant, the women: a memoir

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Author:
Moore, Wayétu
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Hamden/Miller Adult Biography
B/MOORE
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"When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai....

2. Memorial Drive: a daughter's memoir

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Author:
Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-
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5 stars
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At nineteen, Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma. Here she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a 'child of miscegenation' in Mississippi,...

3. Notes on a silencing: a memoir

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Author:
Crawford, Lacy
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Hamden/Miller Adult Biography
B/CRAWFORD
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Traces the author's healing journey after a traumatizing sexual assault at infamous St. Paul's boarding school, describing how she helped police uncover proof of the school's institutionalized mandate of silence.

4. A promised land

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Author:
Obama, Barack
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4.9 stars
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Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young...

5. Uncanny valley: a memoir

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Author:
Wiener, Anna, 1987-
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"The story of Anna Wiener's time spent working in Silicon Valley as the tech industry went through monumental changes"--