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Stitches: A Memoir

by David Small

Norton. 2009. 336p. ISBN 9780393068573. $27.95; pap. ISBN 9780393338966. $16.95.

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Small's powerful memoir traces his life from childhood to adulthood but focuses on his teenage years, when a growth on his neck revealed not just an illness in David but severe failings on the part of his parents. In a work that's both deeply sad and cathartic, Small's heroism resides in his role as historian of the agonies of youth. (LJ 7/09)

Reviewed by Peter Thornell , Jun 01, 2014

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