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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait

Blake Bailey

Presents a darkly humorous account of growing up in a prosperous, eccentric family with an older brother whose erratic and increasingly dangerous behavior threatens them all.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Authors, biography -> BiographyFamily BiographyFamily, Childhood & AdoptionMemoir & Personal History

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and AutobiographyMajor2014FinalistSecondary source
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