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What was the question that you were trying to answer in this book? GARCIA-NAVARRO: Memoirs are sort of interesting - right? - because they require not only for you to examine the behavior of others but also to try and understand yourself. So to look back at that time when things were really at their worst is still difficult. But my mother is so present, and we've lived lifetimes together, me and my mother. I have other difficult essays in the book, but often they deal with people who are no longer a part of my life. It's the time in my life that I still feel kicks up the most dirt and the most pain, how I like to describe it - and also the most love. There's a heartbreaking essay in the book about finding your mother after an overdose. But I didn't quite understand what that meant until later. T KIRA MADDEN: I knew I was different in certain ways. And she relied on her friendships with other fatherless girls. Her parents were entrenched in drug and alcohol addiction. But her debut memoir, "Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls," chronicles the difficulties she faced coming of age. Her uncle, Steve Madden, and her father built a shoe empire. T Kira Madden came of age in the privileged enclave of Boca Raton, Fla., riding horses, attending private schools.
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