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Snowflakes in a Blizzard | Review of "This Never Happened"
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Snowflakes in a Blizzard | Review of "This Never Happened"

This Never Happened is a genre-bending memoir, told in a non-linear way using photographs, letters, and lists. This is a spare work…alternatively heartbreaking and darkly comic. Like an archeological dig, this memoir goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of my family. It’s an unflinching quest to uncover the truth, leaving no one, including myself, unexamined. In the end, it is about the challenge of making peace with questions that will never be answered and the struggle to forgive.

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Powell’s Books | We Can't Wait: The Best Reads of 2019
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Powell’s Books | We Can't Wait: The Best Reads of 2019

This Never Happened (April 2019) by Liz Scott

“I love the spare and darkly humorous voice of this writer, and I really want to read her memoir. In this age of everyone and their cousin sending off DNA to find their roots, this book sounds like the real thing, the deep and painful beginnings of what makes us what we are.”

— Doug C. orders books for Powell’s, has been referred to as a data ninja, and really just wants a nap.

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