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A poignant work, full of delicate insight and consuming language. This is a journey story, a girl's coming-of-age, and a careful investigation of family. Becoming Alice traces one family's struggles, leaving Nazi-occupied Vienna and arriving in America, where trauma begins to surface. I found this book engaging from beginning to end.

OK. I loved The Corrections, but when narrating his own life, Franzen seems overly censored and restrained, almost the opposite of his fiction.

This book is graceful, honest and profound. I have to find a way to incorporate it into my lecture. An inspiration...