A beautifully written and captivating look at how one Black boy’s identity is shaped by landscape, relationships, and family.
REVIEW: Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing
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REVIEW: Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
Through the ebb and flow of one young man’s year, we are urged to confront ourselves, to linger, learn, and grow.
REVIEW: Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village by Mimi Schwartz
The book focuses, not on the horrors of the Holocaust, but on the small stories that have no place in history.
REVIEW: Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity by Darrel McLeod
Darrel McLeod’s story moves beyond the personal and offers insights into the injustices suffered by Canada’s indigenous peoples.
REVIEW: The Good Poetic Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir by Irene Hoge Smith
In telling the story of a mother’s abandonment and eventual life as a poet and paramour of Charles Bukowski, the memoir reveals a true, hard, beautiful vision within.
REVIEW: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir by Allison Hong Merrill
The memoir traces the author’s early life in Taiwan, examining the powerful cycles of abuse into which she was born her journey to break them.
REVIEW: The Other Mothers by Jennifer Berney and The Trying Game by Amy Klein
Two books examine challenges women face having a baby: an LGBTQ memoir one and a second combining memoir and advice.
REVIEW: The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book by Megan Culhane Galbraith
Galbraith’s remarkable hybrid memoir focuses on the adoptee experience from both a personal and historical perspective.
REVIEW: Face: A Memoir by Marcia Meier
Reconstruction by surgery in Face aligns beautifully with reconstruction of memory and personal history through writing,
REVIEW: Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington
Washington proves that familial caregiving is taken for granted by doctors, necessary for patients’ recovery, and frequently devastating.
