REVIEW: incurable optimist: living with illness and chronic hope by Jennifer Cramer-Miller November 8, 2023 The memoir chronicles the author’s decades-long journey battling a life-threatening autoimmune disorder. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Touched Out by Amanda Montei October 8, 2023 A hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism and theory explores themes of motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Places We Left Behind: a memoir in miniature by Jennifer Lang September 10, 2023 A memoir-in-miniature explores storytelling outside of traditional forms. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Everything is Perfect: A Memoir by Kate Nason August 10, 2023 A woman’s personal hell with a philandering husband intersects with a national scandal playing out in the media in this memoir. Read the full story →
REVIEW: It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know by Chachi D. Hauser August 10, 2023 The search for personal identity while being part of a famous family is the focus of a lyrical, deeply textured memoir. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived by Karen DeBonis May 16, 2023 The memoir chronicles a mother’s transformational change as she advocates for her child through chronic illness. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood by Mary Alice Hostetter January 17, 2023 The memoir of growing up gay in a conservative religious community is a story of quiet rebellion. Read the full story →
REVIEW: The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water by Chris Dombrowski January 17, 2023 The memoir is a moving meditation on the nature of man and land juxtaposed with the challenges of family and parenting. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir by Tomás Q. Morín January 17, 2023 The memoir offers a beautifully written account of family love and survival amid the challenges of addiction. Read the full story →
REVIEW: The Year Of The Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum December 19, 2022 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. Read the full story →