The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years (Published 2019)

Fierce Attachments Vivian Gornick Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987 “I remember only the women,” Vivian Gornick writes near the start of her memoir of growing up in the Bronx tenements in the 1940s, surrounded by the blunt, brawling, yearning women of the neighborhood, chief among them her indomitable …