![]() With a clear-eyed honesty, Thorne's protagonist, a Central Valley teenager, describes the pain of being a young person among careless, thrill-seeking men and hardworking, wounded women. Hand Me Down By Melanie Thorne (Dutton 311 pages $25.95) Riding Fury Home spans forty years of the intense, complex relationship between Chana and her motherthe trauma of their early years together, the transformation and joy they found when. Wilson's memoir of a reacquainted mother and daughter is both lamentation of a shameful past and evidence of how far we've come. Riding Fury Home A Memoir By Chana Wilson (Seal Press 377 pages $17 paperback) Its willingness to follow its characters into their self-made tragedies is brave and brilliant. ![]() Set in Central California in the 1980s, Vann's novel is about degradation at the hands of family and greed and lust. Dirt By David Vann (Harper 258 pages $25.99) The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. ![]() Reading Sontag's casual journal entries is the closest any of us will get to being inside her brain. In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother held a rifle to her own head and pulled the trigger. ![]() Susan Sontag As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh Journals & Notebooks 1964-1980 Edited by David Rieff (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 523 pages $30) ExxonMobil and American Power By Steve Coll (The Penguin Press 685 pages $36)Ĭoll's masterful book is a riveting and appalling study of Big Oil's biggest player. ![]()
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