The experimental memoir combines research, reflections on belonging, and a variety of essay forms in the author’s exploration of her past.
REVIEW: Curing Season: Artifacts by Kristine Langley Mahler
Tag: memoir in essays
REVIEW: Hysterical by Elissa Bassist
Women’s pain and the silencing of their voices are among the topics explored with both humor and fury in Elissa Bassist’s memoir in essays.
REVIEW: The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home by Alison Townsend
The Green Hour captures the places inhabited by the author, weaving meditative writing about natural beauty with recollections of the mother she lost in childhood.
REVIEW: Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays by DeWitt Henry
Family relationships are explored in an essay collection shortlisted for the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay.
REVIEW: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays by Megan Harlan
The memoir in essays excavates all the layers of what home is from the perspective of someone whose childhood home was never one place.
REVIEW: I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes from a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman by Margarita Gokun Silver
Using a hybrid form, the comic memoir-in-essays chronicles the author’s journey from girl who left Moscow to completely assimilated American.
