Barbara Clarke opens her memoir, The Red Kitchen, with a frightening childhood recollection. The same day her mother painted their kitchen a brilliant red, she witnessed an alarming argument between […]
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Horse. Woman.
“Good horse, you are enough. Bringing no request, no order you must obey, let my hand rest on your flank as familiar as kin. Let my palm be a still […]
Read MoreWait for God to Notice
Wait for God to Notice is author Sari (rhymes with Mary) Fordman’s poignant love story about her family and a land far away—Uganda. Her parents, Kaarina (who is Finnish) and […]
Read MoreTwice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
“When I enter the kitchen the large table is set for four and I find my seat at one end and another worry enters my mind: I hope I haven’t […]
Read MoreThree Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
Three Simple Lines is about writer Natalie Goldberg’s reading and writing of haiku as well as her travel to Japan to follow in the footsteps of the masters. Many years […]
Read MoreThe Long Tail of Trauma
Elizabeth Wilcox has written a stunning new memoir that traces three generations of mother-daughter trauma in her family. The principal characters are the author; her mother, Barbara; Barbara’s mother, Violet; […]
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