A Certain Loneliness is a memoir that circles queerness, disability, independence, and the human struggle to connect.
Review: A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
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.
Review: Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
In what women know as a familiar and infuriating experience, Montgomery discovers physicians who won’t listen to her.
Review: Lenin’s Asylum by A.A. Weiss
Weiss has volunteered through the Peace Corps to spend 27 months in Moldova, a former Soviet Republic between Romania and Ukraine.
Review: Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Terese Marie Mailhot reflects on the challenges of negotiating the gap between the ugly truth and the art she hopes to make out of it
