The Life I Really Lived
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The Life I Really Lived

Jessamyn West
3.89
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Sparkling with Jessamyn West's special gifts of poetic language and vivid detail, this is a powerful portrait of Orpha Chase, a writer whose blissfully sentimental books contrast acutely with her own difficult life.
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