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Will and Attention: A Memoir

By Meghan O'Gieblyn
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By Meghan O'Gieblyn
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In this luminous memoir of secret drinking, fragile recovery, and the deep pull of religion, award-winning essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn seeks to understand why it is so hard to sustain the difficult work of personal change.

"A brilliant portrait of a brilliant person: gentle, melancholy, bracing, and astute."-Lorrie Moore

"An elegant and philosophical memoir about addiction whose stakes are no less than what comprises one's will to live"-Melissa Febos

After leaving evangelical Christianity in her...

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