REVIEW: Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent June 6, 2023 Clarkisha Kent’s memoir Fat Off, Fat On is conversational, snarky, sarcastic, casual, funny, and raw. Read the full story →
REVIEW: When They Tell You to Be Good by Prince Shakur December 19, 2022 Shakur’s memoir is a meditation on multiple identities and their place in the larger American society, Read the full story →
REVIEW: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden June 6, 2022 The horrific experiences of African migrants seeking asylum in Europe is the focus of this reported nonfiction book. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing December 6, 2021 A beautifully written and captivating look at how one Black boy’s identity is shaped by landscape, relationships, and family. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Kissing Fidel: A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States by Magda Montiel Davis June 7, 2021 Many Cuban exiliados — exiles — in the U.S. joke that their “BC” is “Before Castro,” the years before Fidel Castro took power. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued (translated by Samuel Rutter) December 2, 2020 One of our first natural reactions when we hear of a pre-meditated murder is to ask a simple, one-word question: “Why?” Read the full story →
REVIEW: Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon June 3, 2020 Everything on the cover Vernon’s memoir screams confident, proud, fearless… the image fits her so well that it would be easy to think she’d always been this way… Read the full story →
Review: Self-Ish: A Transgender Awakening, by Chloe Schwenke January 6, 2020 It seems unbelievable at first that a woman with her job experience would find herself struggling to stay employed. Read the full story →
Review: Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston June 3, 2019 I’d only been alive about a decade the first time I looked through The Window. Read the full story →
Review: The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Kim Adrian December 1, 2018 Adrian writes her memoir as a glossary, starting with A and sharing her story though short vignettes…. Read the full story →