I have been obsessed with Holocaust stories and memoirs for many years. Then I branched out to descendants of Holocaust survivors and accounts of researching family history. Do Not Disclose: […]
Read MoreSuddenly, your mother blurts out, “When I was twenty, before I met your dad, I got pregnant and had a baby that I gave up for adoption. You have a […]
Read MoreThe Other Mothers (Source Books, 2011), by accomplished essayist Jennifer Berney, is a moving and engaging chronicle of one couple’s very personal struggle to become parents. Berney’s first published memoir […]
Read MoreDiana Kupershmit’s moving memoir about raising their special needs daughter is heartfelt and deeply personal. Emma was born with the translocation of the second and fourth chromosomes, a chromosomal abnormality […]
Read MoreKirsteen MacLeod refers to herself as “a serial retreater, creating islands of space and time, a week here, a month there, to answer a faint call, barely heard above the […]
Read MoreHarebrained, kooky, delirious, naïve, wacky, confused, foolish, hoodwinked: all adjectives that could be attributed to Edna and Leo Roper, the parents of author Elizabeth Roper Marcus. In her memoir, Don’t […]
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