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Which country is the focus of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence?
Mayle builds the book around adapting to local life, including food, weather, and renovating a house.
Prince Harry's 2023 memoir has which one-word title?
The title refers to the royal idea of an heir and a spare, with Harry born after his brother William.
Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks investigates cells known by what name?
HeLa cells could keep multiplying in laboratories, making them valuable for medical research long after Lacks's death.
In E. B. White's essay "Once More to the Lake", the narrator returns to a childhood lake with whom?
Watching his son repeat familiar activities makes White feel the unsettling overlap of generations.
Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia explores a region at the southern end of which continent?
Chatwin mixes encounters on the road with stories of settlers, wanderers, and outlaws in the region.
Tara Westover's Educated describes her path from an isolated upbringing to which university for a doctorate?
Westover first entered a classroom as a college student after growing up outside the conventional school system.
Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild recounts hiking which long-distance trail?
Strayed undertook the solo hike after her mother’s death and the breakdown of her marriage.
Which essayist wrote the collection Me Talk Pretty One Day?
The title essay follows Sedaris's struggles as an adult learning French in Paris.
Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle takes its title from a house her father did what with?
The unbuilt house becomes a symbol of her father's grand promises amid the family's unstable life.
James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" reflects on the death of which family member?
Baldwin links family grief with racial tensions in Harlem, joining personal memory to public history.