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Making It Up

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  • In Penelope Lively

    …memoir of Lively’s Egyptian childhood, Making It Up (2005) has been termed an “anti-memoir”: it is a series of narratives drawn from her own life that Lively rewrote so as to explore the manner in which her life might have differed had she made—or had forced on her—other choices. Life…

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