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A writer faces her painful past, with the help of Virginia Woolf
If you're looking for a memoir with a logical structure, like a beginning, middle and end, Heather Christle's meditative 'In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf' is not the book for you. The author of the best-selling 'The Crying Book,' as well as four books of poems, Christle, the daughter of an English mother and an American father, travels to England to find out more about the maternal side of her family. While there, she reconstructs her own memories of visiting London, and steeps herself in the life of Woolf, who serves as her guide on this journey, a kind of Virgil to Christle's Dante.
