Name All the Animals: A Memoir
by:
Alison Smith (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780743536776 (0743536770)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Adult,
Coming Of Age,
Biography Memoir,
Glbt,
Queer
This was the first book that started my "A book a month" challenge in 2012. I saw a copy at a bargain bookshop, and the thing that made me love this book was the fact that it was a heart-breaking memoir. I'm not up much for memoirs, but this is a different one. Alison's life is like a book story. Th...
A memoir by Alison Smith. Her only brother Roy died in a car accident the summer that he at 18, about to go off to college, & Alison was 15. The memoir covers mostly the 3 yrs from her brother's death, until his 3rd anniversary - when Alison reaches his age & turns a corner. It ends somewhat abruptl...
Alison Smith and her brother, Roy, were as close as siblings can be when they were children. Suddenly, at eighteen, Roy is killed in a terrible automobile accident. His loss to the family is...