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Sarah Viren is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of two books of narrative nonfiction. Her essay collection Mine won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Prize and the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, was a silver winner for essays in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, was longlisted for the Pen Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award (as well as being named one of LitHub’s favorite books of 2018). Her second book, To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories, is out on June 13 from Scribner. Sarah is a finalist for a National Magazine Award in Feature Writing and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and ...more

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	To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories 3.51 avg rating — 1,492 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Córdoba Skies by Federico Falco, Sarah Viren (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.45 avg rating — 851 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mine: Essays 4.47 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us by Sonya Huber (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Martha Bayne (Editor), Sharbari Zohra Ahmed 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“forgiveness, is not about you letting that person off the hook. It’s about letting them have less control over your life. You don’t forgive as a form of absolution to them, you forgive as a means of lessening their psychic power over you. It’s grief work, she said, and part of that work is considering what you would have wanted to have happened instead of what did.”
― Sarah Viren, To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

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“Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us. HANNAH ARENDT”
― Sarah Viren, To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

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