While pitched as an adventure story… it is so much more than that…. It’s a “finding one’s “own voice and learn[ing] to trust it” coming-of-age story…
REVIEW: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure by Mimi Zieman
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Revelation at the Foodbank by Merrill Joan Gerber
Gerber is a writer’s writer, sharing memories of more than 60 years of working at the craft
REVIEW: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn
Dorsey Nunn never forgot the question a friend asked him on the day he walked out of San Quentin Prison.
REVIEW: A Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief by B.J. Hollars
When someone is alive and healthy, it is easy to think you have all the time in the world to say everything you need.
REVIEW: American Boomer by Steven Fisher
Steve Fisher is a reliable narrator, full of honesty.
REVIEW: The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems by Adrie Kusserow
It’s a gift to learn from others’ disciplines—and discipline—from their careful, thoughtful study and observation.
REVIEW: Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon
[Ariel] Gordon creates an intimacy with the reader that makes us sit up and take notice…”
REVIEW: Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope by Barrie Miskin
Hell Gate Bridge is an apt metaphor. Miskin’s symptoms were many, severe, and disorienting.
REVIEW: Take Back the Magic: Conversations With the Unseen World by Perdita Finn
After Finn’s father died, she received her inheritance in the mail: a small jet-black rock circled by twisted iron rods….
REVIEW: I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace
I found an immediate connection with Zachary Pace…. Even though we have vastly different experiences, we both have experienced being an outcast and floundering…
