Name All the Animals

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Name All the Animals
Name All the Animals Alison Smith Book Cover.jpg
Author Alison Smith
LanguageEnglish
GenreMemoir
Publisher Scribner
Pages319
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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