“Son of a bird” was what Andrews’s Black nanny called her when she’d been naughty.
REVIEW: Son of a Bird by Nin Andrews
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REVIEW: Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs by Judith Barrington
Judith Barrington gives readers an up-close, inside look at England’s second-wave feminist movement…
REVIEW: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn
Dorsey Nunn never forgot the question a friend asked him on the day he walked out of San Quentin Prison.
REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
What pushes Sasha LaPointe’s essays to another level are the themes distinctive to her individual story as an Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe punk rocker.
REVIEW: Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness edited by Diane Gottlieb
The voice of the body and the need to listen to it runs through this essay collection.
REVIEW: Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent
Clarkisha Kent’s memoir Fat Off, Fat On is conversational, snarky, sarcastic, casual, funny, and raw.
REVIEW: When They Tell You to Be Good by Prince Shakur
Shakur’s memoir is a meditation on multiple identities and their place in the larger American society,
REVIEW: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
The horrific experiences of African migrants seeking asylum in Europe is the focus of this reported nonfiction book.
REVIEW: Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing
A beautifully written and captivating look at how one Black boy’s identity is shaped by landscape, relationships, and family.
REVIEW: Kissing Fidel: A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States by Magda Montiel Davis
Many Cuban exiliados — exiles — in the U.S. joke that their “BC” is “Before Castro,” the years before Fidel Castro took power.
