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Can I read Space : A Memoir on EtoBox?
Space : A Memoir by Kercheval, Jesse Lee is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Space : A Memoir about?
A memoir in the tradition of Frank Conroy's STOP TIME and Tobias Wolff's THIS BOY'S LIFE, SPACE is about growing up when America was on the brink of the big changes coming by way of Apollo 11, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE, and the Vietnam War. Jesse Lee Kercheval opens her story in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966 as a precocious ten-year-old whose family―father, mother, two little girls―is trying to ride the Space Race’s tide of optimism. But even as the rockets keep going up, the Kercheval family slowly spirals down.
Who reads Space : A Memoir?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kercheval, Jesse Lee
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780299300241
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Science, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (100 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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