Behind every great man is a great woman, so the saying goes. Katherine Chen delves into J.M. Coetzee's memoir, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, to find the phrase also extends to elusive Nobel Prize winning authors.
Those looking for insights into Michael Ondaatje’s storied life may be let down by Running in the Family. Katherine Chen proclaims the memoir reads “consistently like a family heirloom of several less-than-consequential stories which only Ondaatje and his living relatives could possibly care about.”
