The memoir chronicles the author’s decades-long journey battling a life-threatening autoimmune disorder.
REVIEW: incurable optimist: living with illness and chronic hope by Jennifer Cramer-Miller
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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.
REVIEW: Every Other Weekend: Coming of Age with Two Different Dads by Anthony J. Mohr
The author’s experience of navigating the love and loyalties of two sets of parents is told against the backdrop of mid-century Hollywood.
REVIEW: Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived by Karen DeBonis
The memoir chronicles a mother’s transformational change as she advocates for her child through chronic illness.
REVIEW: Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson
The memoir examines a generational legacy of suicide, its impact on those left behind, and society’s attitudes about those who end their lives.
REVIEW: Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins
Written with honesty and grit, the memoir overturns stereotypes about addiction and recovery.
