Someone: A Novel Other Diet Books three-year journey to forge an

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Someone: A Novel Other Diet Books three-year journey to forge anA fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, by the National Book Awardwinning author An ordinary lifeits sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusionlived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott's extraordinary return, seven years after the publication of After This. Scattered recollectionsof childhood, adolescence, motherhood, old agecome together in this