Hell Gate Bridge is an apt metaphor. Miskin’s symptoms were many, severe, and disorienting.
REVIEW: Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope by Barrie Miskin
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
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…
REVIEW: Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee
Although Margaret Juhae Lee was born in the United States and raised in Houston, she never felt at home.
REVIEW: American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley
As a fan of Colum McCann’s fiction, I was anxious to read his first nonfiction book. I was not disappointed.
REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
What pushes Sasha LaPointe’s essays to another level are the themes distinctive to her individual story as an Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe punk rocker.
REVIEW: The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris, One Lesson at a Time by Jane Bertch
The French Ingredient is a testimony for the magic that ensues when you’re willing to embrace the unknown.
REVIEW: First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger
[This collection] begins with a title essay so moving, complex, and powerful that I had to put the book down just to let the work settle…
REVIEW: The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting by Lee Gutkind.
I was struck then and am struck now, having read Gutkind’s book, by the notion that confessional writing is subversive.
REVIEW: Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Splinters follows the twisted, unexpected journey of becoming a new parent.
