TaRessa Stovall’s memoir, Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA details over forty years of her life as a mixed-race child of a Jewish mother and Black father. The […]
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Dancing in the Narrows: A Mother-Daughter Odyssey Through Chronic Illness
Anyone who has ever known a person with Lyme disease can appreciate what a persistent, debilitating illness it is. Indeed, as writer Anna Penenberg learned, it can be an affliction […]
Read MoreLooking for the Lioness: A Safari to Myself
“Sometimes you have to give a little push, one way or the other, to get past the depression, low self-esteem, unhealthy relationships, procrastination, or whatever is holding you back from […]
Read MoreStepping Stones: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Transformation
Marilea Rabasa’s “Stepping Stones” is an engrossing story of generational addiction, told by a woman has been both an alcoholic and a bulimic. Throughout this memoir (her second: her first […]
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API’S BERLIN DIARIES By Gabrielle Robinson She Writes Press, 2020 Reviewed by Doris Clark, July 17, 2020 As a granddaughter, Gabrielle Robinson is thrilled to have her grandfather’s diaries in […]
Read MoreBeginning with Cannonballs: A Novel
What is the value of friendship? It means everything to Gail and Hanna until they grow up and life separates them. And what do their racial differences mean? Nothing, until […]
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