An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

An American Childhood

Annie Dillard

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced

255 pages | first published 1987

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Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yello...
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Moods

reflective 100%
informative 38%
emotional 30%
challenging 23%
funny 23%
hopeful 23%
inspiring 15%
adventurous 7%
dark 7%
lighthearted 7%
sad 7%
tense 7%

Pace

slow 69%
medium 23%
fast 7%

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