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I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

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Publisher
S&s/ Marysue Rucci Books
Date
Essays
Non-Fiction
Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying--and often failing--to be nice.

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Taken together, the essays form a composite portrait of a likeable, self-aware, and complicated human being and writer.
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The humor lands and the lithe prose elevates Leary’s musings on life’s mundanities. This is a gem.
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The author’s candid essays invite readers to laugh and cry along with her as she attempts to relieve herself of her people-pleasing duties. She fluidly guides us through her thought processes, while finding humor and displaying a refreshing vulnerability.
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