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Meet Me in the In-Between: A Memoir Kindle Edition

by Bella Pollen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
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A fashion designer turned writer details her bohemian life in this illustrated memoir—“Think Eat, Pray, Love . . . only cooler” (Marie Claire).
 
Bella Pollen wants to feel like she belongs, but she never learned how. The middle child of transatlantic parents, she constantly moved back and forth between England and America, home and away, family and freedom. Now an adult, she struggles to contain an adventurous spirit within the confines of conventional living.
 
In Meet Me in the In-Between, the international bestselling author takes us on an illustrated journey through her life, from her privileged childhood in Upper Manhattan through her marriage to the son of a Mafioso, to Mexican border towns where she falls in with a crowd of Pink Floyd–loving smugglers. Throughout all, Bella grapples with relationships, motherhood, career ups and downs, and a pathological fear of being boring.
 
With a mix of humor and pain, this is “a poignant, beautifully written memoir” of one woman’s quest for the extraordinary in her ordinary life (The Mail on Sunday).
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  4. Publication date
    June 19, 2017
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Praise for Meet Me in the In-Between
“Think Eat, Pray, Love—finding yourself, laughing, and taking what you need even when it’s not what you wanted—only cooler.” —Marie Claire
 
“Meet Me in the In-Between displays the disjointedness of a life, how whims and flings don’t make existence—or a woman—any less meaningful.” —Zyzzyva
 
“Frequently disturbing, often very funny . . . Unforgettable.” —The Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Raised in New York, Bella Pollen is a writer and journalist who has contributed to a variety of publications, including Vogue, Bazaar, The Spectator, The Times and The Sunday Telegraph. She is the author of five novels, including the bestselling Hunting Unicorns and the critically acclaimed Summer of the Bear. She lives and works between the US and England.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01NCNLXE1
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press (June 19, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 19, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 10.2 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 319 pages
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    4.1 out of 5 stars 48 ratings

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Bella Pollen

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Raised in New York , Bella Pollen is a writer and journalist who has contributed to a variety of publications, including Uk and American Vogue, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Observer.

Author of five previous novels, including the best selling Hunting Unicorns and critically acclaimed Summer of the Bear, Pollen has tackled a broad spectrum of subjects from Cold War intrigue to decline of the British Aristocracy to the immigration issues of the US/Mexican Border.

With Meet Me in the In-Between, an illustrated memoir, Pollen takes us on her illuminating, funny and often painful quest to keep looking for the extraordinary in an ordinary life.

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Pollen divides her time between London and the American mid-west.

www.bellapollen.com

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  • c.s.lee
    5.0 out of 5 stars a most enjoyable ride
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2017
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    a most enjoyable ride. pure delight: funny, pithy, witty, poignant…bella pollen's prose simply sparkles. wonderful illustrations and calligraphy as well. a beautiful book, inside and out.
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  • Julia Flyte
    4.0 out of 5 stars Disjointed but enjoyable
    Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2017
    It seems kind of appropriate given the book's title that I am undecided between giving it three stars or four. I loved, loved, loved the first half and then felt like it lost its way in the second half. In the end I've rounded up because the way that Bella Pollen can craft a sentence is just brilliant. Sometimes poignant, sometimes thought-provoking and often hilarious.

    Bella Pollen - I must have heard of her before reading this book but the name meant nothing to me when I picked it up. Her first career was as a fashion designer and she frequently dressed Diana Princess of Wales. (There is very little mention of her career in this book and absolutely none of Diana or any of her other celebrity clients). She then turned to writing and has written several novels, including one which I own but have never got round to reading. (Along with about 500 other books). Again, there is very little mention of her writing career in this book.

    So what is it about? Her childhood in Manhattan, her first marriage to the son of an Italian Godfather, her relationship with her children and her parents. And most of all, about her restless nature which takes her to live in a variety of isolated places and embark on crazy adventures like deciding to sneak across the border from Mexico into the US without being detected. It's a disjointed collection of anecdotes and character studies which somehow works because of her honest confessional tone and enviable way with words. I throughly enjoyed this - particularly the first half.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pollen is poignant and never ceases to delight, and make me giggle
    Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2017
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    A must read. Pollen is poignant and never ceases to delight, and make me giggle. Her honesty is total and lovely.
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  • Kristine Fisher
    3.0 out of 5 stars Meet Me in the In-Between
    Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2017
    Meet Me in the In-Between by Bella Pollen is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late May.

    A series of short stories interspliced with symbolically abstract ink-wash sketches - the first-person stories involve a lot of melodic (yet not exactly singsong) self-talk with the sketches sometimes serving as a story. Overall, it's like reading short-form Roald Dahl on a rainy day.
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  • JGL
    5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018
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    This memoir was humorous, insightful and an interesting read. I highly recommend.
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  • Alison D D
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting life.....
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2017
    This was a fun memoir to read. The authors style of writing is very entertaining and I think shows us quite well her struggle with who she is and what she wants out of life. The stories she gives us throughout of her experiences, the people she meets and the places she visits are wonderful and very descriptive. Sometimes very funny, but always truthful to her life and what she is feeling at the time.
    Her story which at times seems a bit unbelievable, just furthers our perception of who she is and who she wants to become, all of the while showing us her conflicts between, family life and the independence of being a writer and seeking out interesting stories. One becomes invested in the lives of all of the characters we read about.
    The book has a few pages of graphic art and prose, which give us certain details of her life, in a condensed yet clear view of what is going on.
    The author grew up going back and forth between two places, the UK where when young, the family visited an Island off the west coast of Scotland and also London and in the USA, New York, where they lived when she was young and then later in the American Mid West, very rural and the closest neighbors could be quite eccentric.
    The author gets herself into some very interesting situations, from Italy to Mexico, not to mention the beginning of this book where she has visitations from and incubus.
    Well worth reading as it was so interesting.
    I would like to thank NetGalley and Grove Atlantic and Grove Press for the ARC of this book.
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  • Jenna
    1.0 out of 5 stars A memoir not memorable
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2020
    I have had this book on my Kindle for a year or two now. I recently opened it up to read and saw that I was 50% through the book, however I didn't remember anything about the book. I decided to give it another go and about 50% into the book, I found myself bored, unattached and almost resenting Pollen. I don't want to bad-mouth someone's personal memoir, but I feel this book should have stayed more of a "Dear diary" recollection for personal use instead of for the public to endure. Her narrative flops all over the place. She has hints of irony and humor throughout (which is what kept me entertained for the 50%) but her perspectives of people is often negative, deconstructive, and judgemental. She expressed this arrogant and privileged air about her and didn't really overcome any serious issues that the "sex-demon" in the first chapter foreshadowed. I was unattached to Bella and her narrative. I think the plot summary is better off as an 'about the author's piece and the book is better left for a diary with a lock and key
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars but by a dynamic and charming woman in the very thick of life and determined to love every minute of it if at all possible - ...
    Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017
    An incredibly personal story - evocative and urgent. It is told not from the perspective of someone looking back at a life completed, but by a dynamic and charming woman in the very thick of life and determined to love every minute of it if at all possible - with all its dangers and sadnesses. Funny too
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  • nick27692
    5.0 out of 5 stars Truly memorable
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2017
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    This wasn't at all what I was expecting; it was far more unsettling, provocative, moving and philosophical. As Pollen sketches out scenes of her life and the dilemmas that underlie them with great effectiveness, she also shows the power of the various loves that she has encountered in her life with great delicacy. There is a message within it for us all. She has a wonderful turn of phrase and is often very funny. I enjoyed it enormously and I know I will keep thinking of it for some time.
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  • Hardback Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars I absolutely loved this beautiful book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2017
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    I absolutely loved this beautiful book. Bella Pollen writes with such insight, humour and joy. Full of wonderful quirky characters, Bella observes her relationships with family and those she meets along life's journey with a mix of delightful understated wit and compassion for our frailties. Her writing feels alive, it jumps off the page - I never wanted this hugely rewarding book to end.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A magical, moving and magnificent book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2017
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    This is a fantastic, magical, moving and magnificent book. It is also alarmingly brave - a very naked memoires pulled together by different stories, which are immensely touching, kind, charming and hysterically funny. In short; never have I enjoyed a book this much and never has a book had me crying with such laughter.
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  • Ala
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2017
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    I enjoyed reading it very much, it's funny and with deep insights, makes you connect easily with its beautiful ideas of a family's intricacies and the search for what we really are.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Try it you won't regret it.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2017
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    This is a wonderful book on many levels - it is exposing and vulnerable in places and shares many difficult levels of pain. It touched me in a way that made me respond at a visceral level as if I knew exactly what the author was grappling with. I felt what she was saying was known to me. An unique experience from a book for me. Read it and see for yourself.
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