REVIEW: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Notes on Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Dr. Cornelia Griggs February 3, 2024 A surgical resident’s memoir of the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic is an uncompromising account from healthcare’s front lines. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways by Brittany Means January 8, 2024 The memoir reconstructs the author’s complicated past, ordering a life of contradictions amid the fallibility of memory. Read the full story →
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 →