Half a Life: A Memoir by Jill Ciment

Half a Life: A Memoir

Jill Ciment

220 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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Unflinchingly honest, moving, and funny, Half a Life shows how a girl without means or promise and with only a loving mother, chutzpah, a bit of fraud, and a lot of luck turned into somebody. In 1964 the Ciment family left middle-class Montreal fo...

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