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"A Life's Work"

Rachel Cusk's "A Life's Work" ($19) is a brutally honest, beautifully written memoir on motherhood. It's so honest, it was quite divisive when originally published in 2001. But that sentiment seems to have shifted in recent years, and following its reissue in 2019, "A Life's Work" was named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times.

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