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Essays & Memoir|Granta 95
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Loved Ones: Introduction
Ian Jack
One of the world's unfair divisions is that between the writer and the written-about, and this is nowhere more true than in the literary form called the memoir.
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Every Move You Make
David Malouf
‘This is what sorrow is that knows no explanation or answer.’
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Help, Help, Help
Jonathan Taylor
‘Day in, day out, my father had to watch us smiling and laughing, while he couldn't join.’
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Mrs Covet
Rebecca Miller
‘But you can't kill a ladybug. It's terrible luck to kill a ladybug.’
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Five Houses
Melanie McFadyean
‘I live here, we say, this is my house, my home. We settle, dwell, adorn. A house feels permanent. But this illusion of security can end in a minute.’
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Early Retirement
John Lanchester
‘My father used to tell the story of a tutor at his university, a Viennese professor of something or other.’
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Year of the Monkey
Fan Wu
‘I stood in front of the roller coaster, whose winding tracks looked like intestines in a demon's stomach.’
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Jumping Monkey Hill
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘His accent was what the British called posh, the kind some rich Nigerians tried to mimic and ended up sounding unintentionally funny.’
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Mao Comes to Sydney
Georgia Blain
‘After all, it was only politics, and I was too young to understand.’
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Twins
Jeremy Seabrook
‘Separation has been, perhaps, the single biggest determining influence in my life.’
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Resolution
Jim Shepard
‘Everything suggests an ongoing and immemorial enervation. A kind of trance in the air.’
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Where is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?
James Lasdun
‘The fire department didn't have a tall enough ladder to reach his body.’