It's no secret that I am a fan of memoirs. Truth is often crazier than fiction. Recently I've been on an Ann Patchett kick reading which started by reading This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. That book featured a few essays on her friendship with Lucy Grealy, author of Autobiography of a Face. After I finished Grealy's memoir about her childhood with cancer I picked up Patchett's memoir, Truth and Beauty, about her twenty-year friendship with Grealy (the two met in college).
This isn't the first time I've found myself going back and forth between both sides of a person's life. A few years ago I read Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. His father, David Sheff, also wrote a memoir about Nic's teenage drug use in Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction. A few years after that Nic Sheff added to the story with We All Fall Down: Living With Addiction, his memoir about relapses and rehab. The combination of those three books really painted a picture of what addiction and recovery was like on a family.
Have you read a combination of memoirs that offered both sides of the story? Please share your recommendations! I'm looking to read even more!
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