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White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between by Judy Batalion (NAL, $16) is reminiscent of those nested Russian dolls. First there is Bubbie, Batalion’s maternal grandmother, a Polish Holocaust survivor who swam the Vistula with her sisters. Nested inside is her mother, a hoarder who raised Judy and her younger... Read more »