A surgical resident’s memoir of the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic is an uncompromising account from healthcare’s front lines.
REVIEW: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Notes on Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Dr. Cornelia Griggs
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REVIEW: Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
The memoir offers a fragmented, lyrical exploration of the natural world, the idea of home, motherhood, and surviving the unknown.
REVIEW: A Petit Mal: A Mother’s Healing Love Song by Ana María Caballero
The prize-winning memoir pushes the boundaries of the creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child’s seizure disorder.
REVIEW: Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways by Brittany Means
The memoir reconstructs the author’s complicated past, ordering a life of contradictions amid the fallibility of memory.
REVIEW: incurable optimist: living with illness and chronic hope by Jennifer Cramer-Miller
The memoir chronicles the author’s decades-long journey battling a life-threatening autoimmune disorder.
REVIEW: Touched Out by Amanda Montei
A hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism and theory explores themes of motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control.
REVIEW: Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist by Marlena Williams
The author explores her relationship with her mother while examining the mother/daughter bond in the classic horror film.
REVIEW: Places We Left Behind: a memoir in miniature by Jennifer Lang
A memoir-in-miniature explores storytelling outside of traditional forms.
REVIEW: The Sound of Undoing: A Memoir in Essays by Paige Towers
Sound – how it can hurt, heal and evoke memory – is the unifying element in this researched memoir in essays.
REVIEW: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Self discovery forms a counterpoint with everyday family interactions in a memoir filled with hope and possibility.
