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Rachel Lithgow
Rachel J. Lithgow is a historian and museum professional with thirty years of experience running large cultural institutions, whose work has appeared in publications including The New York Times. After losing her father and divorcing her long-term husband, she left her career to write full time. She is the author of the memoir My Year of Really Bad Dates (2025), exploring midlife dating after divorce.
Biographical details sourced from Simon & Schuster.
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Matthew Perry
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Matthew Perry's Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing shares Lithgow's wry self-honesty regarding bad choices and relationships, while detailing his personal struggles with addiction.
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Belle Burden
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Belle Burden's Strangers also explores the aftermath of a failed relationship, trading Rachel Lithgow's humor for a more grief-heavy tone.
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Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle shares the unsentimental honesty and dark-funny tone of Rachel Lithgow's memoir, recounting survival in a chaotic, damaging family.
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Jennifer Grey
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Jennifer Grey's Out of the Corner shares Rachel Lithgow's candid look at romantic failures and identity rebuilding, exploring personal evolution and self-discovery later in life.
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Jewel
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Jewel's memoir Never Broken shifts from midlife dating and divorce to personal reflections on childhood trauma, survival instinct, and resilience.
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