Complicated is an apt description of the family relationships that Lillibridge chronicles in her book.
Review: Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home by Lara Lillibridge
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti by Allison Coffelt
Coffelt’s slim, 137-page volume tells the story of her trip to Haiti – a journey ten years in the making.
Review: The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Five-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir.
REVIEW: A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother by Anna Prushinskaya
A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother examines the interconnection of womanhood and motherhood.
Review: Writing As a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life by Albert Flynn DeSilver
Albert Flynn DeSilver defines writers as those who write habitually, not just those who have been published.
Review: All I Want To Do Is Live: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction by Trace Ramsey
Trace Ramsey’s All I Want to do is Live, (Pioneers Press, May 2017), is a hodge-podge of the author’s essays, poetry, creative nonfiction vignettes…
Review: The Analyst: Poems by Molly Peacock
This book deserves a new genre: psychoanalytic poetry memoir.
Review: The Art of Misdiagnosis by Gayle Brandeis
Gayle’s memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide is a heart-wrenching exploration of grief, motherhood, illness, and wellness.
REVIEW: All the Difference by Patricia Horvath
Patricia Horvath is a bookish college professor much more at home in sedentary pursuits — sitting in her writing chair, tucking away in the library — than in active ones.
