What happens when you lose everything you thought you had, and have to start over? When what you thought you understood about your family and history turns out to be […]
Read More“Our artifacts might be evidence we existed. But the stories behind those artifacts are evidence we lived” (p. 228). Kim Danielson, the author of “Piece by Piece,” has created a […]
Read MoreIn 1966, Joan Didion wrote about Lucille Miller’s murder trial in her iconic essay “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” casting Lucille as a cautionary symbol of California ambition gone […]
Read MoreOdyssey: A long wandering usually marked by many changes in fortune. If people evolve as the result of circumstances in their lives, the main character of An Iranian Odyssey by […]
Read MoreNear the beginning of Harvesting History, a memoir of land and filmmaking and family, it is 1969, and Muriel Aggie Murch, a nurse, and her filmmaker husband Walter have moved […]
Read MoreThis book has everything I want from a memoir: honesty, self-reflection, learning more about the author’s cultural and social upbringing, stories about resiliency, and more. I do wish that Karin […]
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