“Moore takes a wry, clear-eyed view of the movie world’s pretensions . . . A captivating portrait of a woman in search of herself.”

1. 'Miss Aluminum, an unvarnished new memoir by Susanna Moore, confirms many intimations from her for her acclaimed novels ― My Old Sweetheart, The Whiteness of Bones, In the Cut ― that hers is, and has been, an unconventional existence guided by the stars. Writing with unflinching candor, Moore, now in her 70s, tells stories both harrowing and heartening of the circumstances and serendipitous rendezvous in.
2. I came across Miss Aluminum: A Memoir by Susanna Moore when I saw it as a recently read book by someone I follow on Goodreads; the title and book cover were very intriguing to me. I had never heard of Susanna Moore before, but after reading Wikipedia, searching Google images of her, and watching two of her interviews on YouTube, I became very interested in learning more.
3. But beneath Miss Aluminum's glittering fairytale surface lies the story of a girl's insatiable hunger to learn and her anguished determination to understand the circumstances of her mother's death. Moore gives us a sardonic, often humorous portrait of Hollywood in the seventies, and of a young woman's hard-won arrival at selfhood.

'Miss Aluminum, an unvarnished new memoir by Susanna Moore, confirms many intimations from her for her acclaimed novels — My Old Sweetheart, The Whiteness of Bones, In the Cut — that hers is, and has been, an unconventional existence guided by the stars. Writing with unflinching candor, Moore, now in her 70s, tells stories both harrowing and heartening of the circumstances and serendipitous rendezvous in. Miss Aluminum: A Memoir Books Excerp A revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970sIn 1963 after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Susanna Moore leaves her home in Hawai'i with no money, no belongings, and no prospects to live with her Irish grandmother in Philadelphia.

—Kirkus Reviews

“Novelist Moore recounts drifting aimlessly through young adulthood after her mother’s death in this affecting coming-of-age story . . . While living in late 1960s Los Angeles, she thrived and befriended Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and writer Joan Didion . . . Moore’s search for stability during a free-spirited decade is a whirlwind of celebrity encounters and a lyrical exploration of the lingering effects of a mother’s death.”

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—Publishers Weekly

“Chronicled in exacting prose . . . Her journey to adulthood included years working as a sales clerk, model, personal assistant, and script reader to at least one movie star, as well as friend to the literati and glitterati after she made her way to California. Despite these seeming adventures, Moore’s saga is far from the stuff of fairy tales . . . Moore offers readers a well-written, unobstructed view of what appears to be an idyllic life, ultimately revealing that looks can be deceiving.”

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—Thérèse Purcell Nielsen, Library Journal

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