Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs

Three candid, affecting memoirs by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Group , including a National Book Award finalist. In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood , Mary McCarthy begins with her recollections of a happy childhood cut tragically short by the death of her parents during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering memory with invention, McCarthy describes how, orphaned at six, she spent much of her childhood shuttled between two sets of grandparents and three religions—Catholic