“For years, I was stuck in limbo between two worlds: never quite deaf enough or quite hearing enough to perfectly fit in one side or another.” Jaipreet Virdi, author of […]
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High Cotton: Essays
This selection of 21 essays by Kristie Robin Johnson is brilliant and evocative in its writing while being disturbing in the topics about which she writes. These essays are a […]
Read MoreThis is How We Leave
“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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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 […]
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