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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Cynthia Blakeley, "The Innermost House: A Memoir" (Bright Leaf, 2024)
Description: The Innermost House: A Memoir (Bright Leaf, 2024) is a stunning account of year-round life on the windswept shores of Cape Cod, threaded with meditations on memory, forgetting, and identity.
About The Innermost House, Publishers Weekly writes, âSalt air and the limits of memory animate this heartrending debut. . . . Readers will be captivated.â Shelf Awareness calls the book âEnthrallingâ adding that âBlakeley is an evocative writer who captures the lush beauty of a âhalf feralâ childhood spent immersed in the natural world while never losing sight of the precarity and violence that permeated it.â Foreword Reviews calls the book âa distinctive memoir with a...