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Wayward witness
Laurino, Maria | June 24, 1996 issue

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This article presents information on the book "An Accidental Autobiography," by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. This memoir by the author retraces her childhood in the Italian-American community in Bensonhurst and the harrowing years from age 9 to 22 when she served as a Jehovah's Witness. To explore memory one must accept that the sharp sting of pain can stifle moments of great joy; that pain, if one allows it, squeezes out breath and deflates the spirit. Harrison struggles to escape the past and its pain. She describes in frightening detail a lung attack she has suffered three times in her life; she explains what it is like to function with 25 to 50 percent of lung capacity.

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ACCIDENTAL Autobiography, An (Book); HARRISON, Barbara Grizzuti; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BOOKS; AUTHORS; BENSONHURST (N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); UNITED States
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