Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Sometimes you read a memoir and you come

across a detail that's so intimate, an admission that's so open and vulnerable, it feels like

you and the writer are sharing something private. Like it's just you and the writer in the DMs and

they just told you a secret. They haven't told anyone else.

Of course, by definition, they did tell someone else, you know, lots of people actually, but

that's why the genre works.

That's what Bernardine Everisto says.

She's the Booker Prize-winning author of the book, Girl, Woman, Other, and she's out now

with a new memoir called Manifesto.

In the book, she goes into her less than ideal relationship with her father. And when NPR's

Michelle Martin asks her about being so open about it, she uses an interesting word. She says

it works because she confides in the reader. In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.

Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors.

On our new show, Sources and Methods.

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Long before she became a literary superstar, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize,

writer Bernardine Everisto was just trying to figure things out, things like where she fit in in her

mostly white working class town as one of the eight kids born to her white British mother

and her Nigerian immigrant father. But as she writes in her new memoir, Manifesto, even though

she wasn't always sure of herself, she always knew she had something to say. Manifesto tells the story of

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