Like the many facets of identity that make up all of us, this collection of voices, all belonging to the same person, felt true….
REVIEW: Lights In Cold Rooms: A Psychologist Reflects on Family, Aging, Love & Loss by Joan Cusack Handler
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Humble Pie: Sober Menopause, Sugar Addiction, and the Sweetness of Recovery by Dana R Bowman
Humble Pie is laugh-out-loud funny, emotionally charged, and highly relatable across a wide spectrum of issues and ages.
REVIEW: Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox
Motion Dazzle by Jocelyn Jane Cox is a tribute to her mother, a love letter to her son, and a testament to resilience as a caregiver.
REVIEW: Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir by Molly Gaudry
All over Fit Into Me are the holes in our lives made by grief, changing self, fear, and the unknown.
REVIEW: Better: A Memoir of Wanting To Die by Arianna Rebolini
An extraordinary hybrid, weaving confessional narrative, exhaustive research, and cultural analysis.
REVIEW: Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder by Lisa Knopp
Throughout the book, Knopp is braiding, raveling. She braids past with present and future.
REVIEW: Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin by Sunny Dhillon
The hiding Sunny Dhillon speaks of in the title of his deceptively charming, but searingly frank memoir, begins right out of the gate, in the preface.
REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser
Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashram….
REVIEW: Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire by Anastasiia Fedorova
A hybrid memoir with a sociological framework that interrogates the paradox between private expressions of sexuality and their depictions in larger culture.
REVIEW: The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere by Nicholas Triolo
In the opening pages, Nicholas Triolo describes the scene of his collapse at the finish line of the Western States 100.
