Huda meets Hadi, the boy she will ultimately marry, at six years old.
Review: First Comes Marriage by Huda Al-Marashi
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: Island In the City: A Memoir by Micah McCrary
Drawing … parallels between Illinois… and Prague makes for an interesting journey for a young African-American queer male growing up in the late 80’s/early 90’s…
Review: All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine — Six Things This Book Is About and What Happened When I Read It
Karen collects and names her cookware. She has a thing for cast iron skillets …
Review: A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert
A Certain Loneliness is a memoir that circles queerness, disability, independence, and the human struggle to connect.
Review: The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Kim Adrian
Adrian writes her memoir as a glossary, starting with A and sharing her story though short vignettes….
Review: Us Girls by Rachael J. Hughes
When Hughes is 17 and still hasn’t gotten her period, she goes to a doctor who tells her she doesn’t have a uterus…
Review: Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad by Krystal A. Sital
Krystal A Sital’s Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad reads like the best kind of novel: at once engrossing, vivid, rich in character, sound, taste, and smell.
Review: To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence by Lisa Kohn
To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence is a riveting tale of a young woman’s survival in—and out—of a religious cult in the 1970s
Review: Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi
[Elaine] loved the American idea of France, but…her experience was that of Colonialism and racism, the very problems she meant to leave behind in the United States.
Review: The Promise of Failure: One Writer’s Perspective on Not Succeeding by John McNally
McNally’s idea for this book originated from Facebook, where many people only posted their “success” updates.
