Name All the Animals
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| Author | Alison Smith |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Scribner |
| Pages | 319 |
| ISBN | 0-7432-5523-2 |
| OCLC | 1010742533 |
Name All the Animals is a 2004 memoir by Alison Smith, detailing the aftermath of the death of her eighteen-year-old brother. While attending Our Lady of Mercy High School, a Catholic high school, Smith developed an eating disorder, lost her faith in God and realized that she was a lesbian, all after her brother's death.
The book has received significant acclaim. It was named one of People Magazine’s ten best books of 2004 and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Non-Fiction, the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Autobiography/Memoir and the 2005 Judy Grahn Award.
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- Lesbian literature in the United States
- American memoirs
- 2000s memoirs
- Lambda Literary Award–winning works
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- Lesbian memoirs
- 2004 LGBTQ-related literary works
- Books about Catholicism and women
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