Most memorable memoir you have read?
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Most memorable memoir you have read?
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Although none of the ones you mention.
I don't go for memoirs of rock stars or famous people - more those who have gone through hardship or those who have come from different cultures.
Some examples of ones I have enjoyed:
Angela's Ashes,(irish childhood in 1930's)
Call the Midwife series,(a midwife in London's east end in 1950's)
Wild Swans (chinese family living through revolution)
Across many mountains,( refugees from Tibet),
The color of water (growing up in mixed race family in USA)
Paper daughter (Chinese immigrant growing up in USA)
Twenty chickens for a saddle (white family living in Africa)
Stay Alive , my son (living through Pol Pot regime in Cambodia),
Night Song of the Last Tram (childhood in Scotland post WW2)
One fourteenth of an elephant (POW in Burma WW2)
The Seamstress (Jewish survivors of WW2)
many many more, too many to list here.
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However I did not include it on my list as it is not really a memoir, it is actually fiction.
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