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Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth

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By Laurie Hertzel
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Growing up in humid southern Minnesota, I always looked forward to summer trips to the cooler and breezier North Shore. One of my favorite parts of the drive north was a stop in Duluth. There, we got a first real glimpse of the massive (and freezing cold, even in August) Lake Superior, marveled at the huge cargo ships and the aerial lift bridge that could accommodate them, toured the eerie Glensheen Mansion, and inevitably ate ice cream cones.
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Family Ghosts: On What We Do and Do Not Learn About Our Parents

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By Laurie Hertzel
| Literary Hub Verified
My mother married my father because she was fainting in the streets with hunger. She told me this one morning as she was getting dressed when I asked her, again. I wanted a story about a moonlit proposal, maybe Guv down on one knee (hard as that was to picture) but got, instead, desperation. Trish leaned into the mirror as she spoke, applying lipstick, expertly smudging her darkened eyebrows. I had followed her into the bedroom, hoping to have her to myself.
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‘Leaving Home’ turns a troubled childhood into a gripping memoir

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By Laurie Hertzel
| Texarkana Gazette Verified
"Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour" By Mark Haddon Doubleday. 320 pp. $35 Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators and pinned down in swimming pools.
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