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Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker
The best new memoirs take a frank look at love and loss.
With characteristic asperity and immeasurable tenderness, Christopher Buckley mourns his legendary parentsconservative commentator William F. Buckley, Jr., and indomitable socialite Patricia Taylor Buckley, who died within a year of each otherin Losing Mum and Pup (Twelve). Danzy Senna, the daughter of a blue-blooded Bostonian and an African-American from the Roxbury housing projects, investigates her own weighty inheritance in Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History (FSG)a keen examination of a utopian-minded marriage scarred by America's racially divided past. The aftershocks of a divorce echo throughout novelist Jane Alison's The Sisters Antipodes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), an astonishing account of two couples in the Foreign Service who, in the late sixties, traded partners and remarried, told with exceptional poise by one of their children. The psychology of an abusive marriage underscores Leslie Morgan Steiner's Crazy Love (St. Martin's Press), in which the former Washington Post columnist (and Mommy Wars anthologist) reveals how, as a Harvard-educated young ...