In what women know as a familiar and infuriating experience, Montgomery discovers physicians who won’t listen to her.
Review: Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
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
Review: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World by Jana Richman
Richman explores the sanctity and desire for solitude in fifteen essays on varying topics…
Review: When History Is Personal by Mimi Schwartz
Among Schwartz’s most thought-provoking pieces is “In The Land of Double Narrative.”
Review: The Year of No Summer: A Reckoning by Rachel Lebowitz
This is not a collection of stories, essays or fairy tales, though it has elements of all three.
Review: The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
Trauma Cleaner is part-memoir, part-biography, all character study.
Review: When We Were Ghouls by Amy E. Wallen
The slow, marked, deliberate pace of this memoir is a gift.
Review: I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara
“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark.”
Review: American Snake Pit: Hope, Grit, and Resilience in the Wake of Willowbrook by Dan Tomasulo
“Dr. Dan”… takes on the monumental job of caring for people with special needs in one of the most infamous mental institutions in the history of America…
