Dorsey Nunn never forgot the question a friend asked him on the day he walked out of San Quentin Prison.
REVIEW: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn
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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.
REVIEW: Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued (translated by Samuel Rutter)
One of our first natural reactions when we hear of a pre-meditated murder is to ask a simple, one-word question: “Why?”
REVIEW: Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
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…
