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 MoreIf 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 MoreLinda 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 MoreAuthor 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 MoreJenn 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 […]
Read MoreOne inexplicable act by Paula Shaffer’s mother left an indelible scar on her life. In her memoir The Absent Mother, Paula Shaffer is pictured with her older brother Bobby, her […]
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