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
Tag: Memoir
REVIEW: Touched Out by Amanda Montei
A hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism and theory explores themes of motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control.
REVIEW: Places We Left Behind: a memoir in miniature by Jennifer Lang
A memoir-in-miniature explores storytelling outside of traditional forms.
REVIEW: Everything is Perfect: A Memoir by Kate Nason
A woman’s personal hell with a philandering husband intersects with a national scandal playing out in the media in this memoir.
REVIEW: It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know by Chachi D. Hauser
The search for personal identity while being part of a famous family is the focus of a lyrical, deeply textured memoir.
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: Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood by Mary Alice Hostetter
The memoir of growing up gay in a conservative religious community is a story of quiet rebellion.
REVIEW: The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water by Chris Dombrowski
The memoir is a moving meditation on the nature of man and land juxtaposed with the challenges of family and parenting.
REVIEW: Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir by Tomás Q. Morín
The memoir offers a beautifully written account of family love and survival amid the challenges of addiction.
REVIEW: The Year Of The Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum
The memoir explores the author’s journey out of depression and the wider issue of women looking for something to carry them forward in uncertain times.
