Are You Somebody?
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Are You Somebody?
Nuala O'Faolain
Biography & Memoir
James Mustich
Aug 29, 2018
This is the compassionate memoir of an Irish journalist and television producer who restored her self in its writing, recovering all the lives that crossed hers on her way to her encounters with “the challenges of middle age and the challenges of loneliness.” It begins with O’Faolain in her early thirties, living in London and working as a television producer with the BBC, at the end of a decade-long affair and, in her words, “entering a bad period in my life.” Unsentimental and immediate in its explorations of the past, candid in its depictions of the coercive power of tradition and religion in shaping even the most liberated souls, Are You Somebody? is a self-interrogation in which every answer remains provisional, and every question endures to honor the uncertainty in which life unfolds.
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Debra Hanff
May 23, 2020
Love her voice.
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Rebecca C Monroe
Jun 20, 2022
Just learned of this writer on Backlisted and am eager to read her!
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