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Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir

In an excerpt from her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, novelist Jeanette Winterson recounts how there were only six books in her childhood home—and how the forbidden ones she brought home were set on fire by her mother.

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