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As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all things sweet. In Candy and Me: A Love Story, Liftin chronicles her life through candy memories and milestones. As a high school student, Hilary used candy to get through track meets, bad hair days, after-school jobs, and her first not-so-great love. Her sweet tooth followed her to college, where she tried to suppress the crackle of Smarties wrappers in morning classes. Through life's highs and lows, her devotion has never crashed -- candy has been a constant companion and a refuge that sustained her.
As Liftin recounts her record-setting candy consumption, loves and friendships unfold in a funny and heartbreaking series of bittersweet revelations and restorative meditations. Hilary survives a profound obsession with jelly beans and a camp counselor, a forgettable fling with Skittles at a dot-com, and a messy breakup healed by a friendship forged over Circus Peanuts. Through thick and thin, sweet and sour, Hilary confronts the challenges of conversation hearts and the vagaries of boyfriends, searching for that perfect balance of love and sugar.
Written with a fresh dry humor that will immediately absorb you into Liftin's sweet obsessions and remind you of your own, Candy and Me unwraps the meaning found in the universal desire for connection and confection. Treat yourself to Candy and Me -- being bad never read so good.

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June 3, 2004
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978-0743254410
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"A funny, harrowing, heartbreaking meditation on life, love, suffering, and friendship. Elegantly written.

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Hilary Liftin is the coauthor of Dear Exile. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Yale University in 1991. She lives with her husband, Chris Harris, in Los Angeles and/or Brooklyn.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria; Reprint edition (June 3, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743254414
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743254410
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.44 inches

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Hilary Liftin is a collaborator specializing in celebrity memoir. Since 2006 she has worked on fifteen books, ten of which hit the New York Times bestseller list. Hilary has also written three books under her own name. The first, DEAR EXILE, is letters that she exchanged with her co-author, Kate Montgomery, when Kate was in the Peace Corps in Kenya and Hilary was in New York. It was published by Vintage in 1999 and is still in print. CANDY AND ME: A Love Story is Hilary’s memoir told through different kinds of candy. MOVIE STAR BY LIZZIE PEPPER is her first novel.

Before becoming a full-time writer in 2006, Hilary worked in the publishing industry for ten years, holding positions in editorial, marketing, and business development at Houghton Mifflin, Barnes & Noble.com, and the ebook division of Time Warner Books (now Hachette).

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L.K.B.H.

the icing on the cake!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2003

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not having a sweet-tooth myself, i found ms. liftin's ability to consume confectionary treats absolutely stunning. her ability to write about them is even better. this novel is filled with vignettes, each connected to a different type of candy, and somehow ms.liftin makes this gimmick actually work. several of the chapters had me giggling out loud--particularly when she asks why anyone would ever dip south of mentos on her mint-o-meter. she captures the bitterness of adolescence, the sourness of spoiled relationships and the spice of sheer pleasure beautifully, causing the myriad candies about which she writes to easily morph into metaphors for her life. a clever, intelligent and--yes--sweet read.

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very sweet

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A sugary amble through the life of the author. Helps plunder memories of sweets and candies long gone and also had me searching out candies I have never tasted.

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Sparkina

This book is a yummy delight!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2004

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A humorous yet at times poignant account of one woman's life, loves, and confectionary favorites, from her childhood addiction to a homemade sugar paste, to junior mints, to Petite Fruits, Jelly Fruit Wedges, and frosting eaten straight from the can (I thought I was the only one who did that!) A factual account that is as entertaining as any fiction story i have come across. I recommend it highly. A real sweetie of a book!

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Lacy

Fun and light read!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 18, 2012

I love sugar...a little too much so the idea of this memoir caught my attention :). It is the life story of Hilary Liftin with her addiction to sugar in place of dealing with emotions. Each chapter is a certain candy where she discusses her love affair with the delectable morsels. It is a fun and light read that I think anyone would enjoy!

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More fruit slices, please

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2003

It has easily been fifteen years (when I worked at Morrow's Nut House in Cape May, NJ for the summer) since I have had the candy known as fruit slices. Today I had a quarter pound (and they were delish!). Hilary - I can only blame you.
This fabulously fun book combines sweet with bittersweet in an all out original twist on the memoir. Composed of 57 anecdotes, some only a half of a page in length, this quick read details a life lived through candy consumption, but this is not another blow by blow memoir. While the reader certainly gets a general overview of the author's life there is not a sense that you have lived with Liftin - you do not endure her every waking moment, every high and low, just the important points (i.e.: the candy...). And while you know you like her, and easily identify with her childhood follies and romantic foibles, you realize the author is just a normal gal, like your best friend from high school. Of course the memoir is profoundly marked by the enjoyment of pound after pound of nostalgic confections and Liftin's descriptive abilities and word-play make your mouth water.
But Liftin does not glamorize her "addiction", or leave us with a book of fluff. She struggles with her ability to identify, but inability to define, her addiction to candy. The worry that it is biological and inescapable vs. the worry that it is psychological and just an easy way to make her feel good about herself (or is it a sly combination of the two?) is no doubt the same worry we have all struggled with regardless of what our own addiction is.
Patrick Barth's chapter heading illustrations and illustrated "Candy Timeline" and "Candy Math" charts must not be overlooked. They completely set the tone of the book and are just great at rounding out an already fun, not-to-be-missed book.

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I Want Candy!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 2, 2007

I just finished this book & I loved it! I'd give it 4.5 stars out of 5.

If you like candy, have ever liked candy, have a favorite candy - then you gotta read this book.

* Warning: Reading this book will give you urgent cravings for candy...I made myself sick from eating too many orange Circus Peanuts while reading it. :-D

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2003

If you are a candy-lover you will enjoy this book. It brought back so many memories. I have enjoyed all the candies she mentions and more and loved the nostalgia of reading about treats I have not tasted in years. I especially liked the author giving her friend a shoebox full of candy as a gift. She describes pouring in a large bag of M&Ms "as a base" then burying cellophane wrapped caramels and other treasures. I like the candy holidays of Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day. In the off months I can just read this book again with plenty of Junior Mints, Smartees, and Bit O' Honey at my side. A sweet book with a taste treat or a memory of one on each page.

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Peggy Vincent

How sweet. How very, very sweet

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2003

...and how very unique! Liftin has a candy addiction. It began in her childhood and persists to the present. To structure a memoir around such an embarrassing and lightweight confection of triviality would seem as silly and insubstantial as a cherry lollipop. But somehow she pulls it off, and her readers don't find their teeth aching with an overdose of sugar. With the memoir progressing through consecutive chapters titled after treats that were specifically important or significant to her during that particular era, Liftin leads us down the twinkling-frosting path of her life.
Not great literature. Not sure it'll stand the test of time. But it's a fun and engaging read, for sure.

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