A smart and lyrical take on the isolation that occurs when people switch social classes quickly
Debra Monroe teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University. She is the author of several books, including The Source of Trouble (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award) and most recently On the Outskirts of Normal.
Debra Monroe is a terrifically acute observer of the two worlds of
women: her mother's generation corseted in sexual and familial
constraints; her own, in which lovers and addresses shift with the
wind. She is able, in other words, to make just as many mistakes,
only different ones. My Unsentimental Education is very funny, not
least at her own expense, and it raises a dozen potent questions
about what has changed for a generation of women not so much
disillusioned as unillusioned about what it means to 'live like a
man.'--Rosellen Brown "author of Cora Fry, Tender Mercies, and Half
a Heart"
Debra Monroe's blue-collar-to-academia memoir My Unsentimental
Education is as well-written as it is wise.--Joe O'Connell "Austin
Chronicle"
Impressively well-written, exceptionally well-organized and
presented, My Unsentimental Education is a candid and thoroughly
absorbing read from beginning to end, making it very highly
recommended for both community and academic library American
Biography collections.--Margaret Lane "Midwest Book Review"
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