“I know women who enjoy being alone in their homes at night. A single mother at my daughter’s preschool, for instance, says she lives for uninterrupted hours of André Watts’s […]
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Possums Run Amok: A True Tale Told Slant
It’s clear from the first pages of Possums Run Amok that this isn’t a traditional memoir in style or pace. Chapters are rapid-fire glimpses into experiences that beg for deeper […]
Read MoreWherever The Road Leads: A Memoir of Love, Travel, and a Van
I love to travel, which made reading Wherever The Road Leads: A Memoir of Love, Travel, and a Van a joy. The story begins with introductions to Katie and Tom […]
Read MoreI Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent: How Poetry Changed a Group of At-Risk Young Women
Every time I picked up this book, I kept putting it down after a bit to reflect. And sometimes cry. Or cringe. Absorb. Pause. Reread. That’s the impact of author, […]
Read MoreA Woman of Worth: A Memoir
When you meet a mentally sharp person closer to 100 than to 90, you’re apt to ask a lot of questions, especially if that nonagenarian is a black American woman […]
Read MoreYaYa’s Big Black Purse
Erma Bombeck once said, “When humor goes, there goes civilization.” Tassie Kalas’s comedic memoir, YaYa’s(Grandmother’s) Big Black Purse, provides hilarious, spontaneous glimpses into her extended Greek family’s attempts to navigate […]
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