...I am trying out a couple of titles .......

Joel

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Obviously, categories overlap. Sexual-excess memoirs often have a
spiritual-discovery aspect to them, as do illness memoirs.
Spirit-of-place memoirs often shade into the ethnic-identity memoir,
which can, in certain instances, merge with the food memoir, as in
"The Language of Baklava," Diana Abu-Jaber's memoir, with recipes, of
growing up as the child of an American mother and a Jordanian father.
(It should not be confused with "Lipstick Jihad" by Azadeh Moaveni,
which is about growing up as an Iranian-American and does not have
recipes.)