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The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop
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The Third Gilmore Girl
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Versatile actress Kelly Bishop authored the year’s most surprisingly resonant memoir, a candid reflection on a remarkable life in Hollywood, on Broadway, and various points in between. A natural-born storyteller, Bishop dishes on her time as family matriarch in the early-2000s TV touchstone The Gilmore Girls. But she’s got some incredible off-screen stories, too, told with style and humor and hard-won wisdom.

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