“In my basement office I keep a framed picture of my brothers and me, circa 1967,” writes Joanne Nelson at the opening of her memoir, This is How We Leave: “The […]
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When the Red Gates Opened
Dori Jones Yang, a journalist from Ohio reporting on China in the 1980s for BusinessWeek—who married a Chinese man while doing so—decided she wanted to write a book that bridged […]
Read MoreNo Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
If your culture tells you that you want to be a wife and mother, whether you know it or not, would you follow their directions or follow your heart? No […]
Read MoreThe Presence of Absence: A Story About Busyness, Brokenness, and Being Beloved
Linda Hoye’s memoir, “The Presence of Absence,” follows her search for her birth family and explores why her mother felt she had to give her daughter up for adoption while […]
Read MoreProzac Monologues: A Voice from the Edge
Author Willa Goodfellow’s dedication page simply states: “I wrote this for you.” She sure did. This book is for the myriad people diagnosed—or misdiagnosed—with Bipolar I or Bipolar II disorder. Having […]
Read MoreMy Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Jenn Shapland wasn’t particularly a fan of the writing of Carson McCullers, the American writer whose first novel was The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, but when she came across […]
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