One 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 […]
Read MoreSaving Sara is a poignant, moving, and brave memoir about a nearly fifty-year battle with food addiction. The author, Sara Somers, also descended into drug abuse and alcoholism as a […]
Read MoreTaRessa 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 […]
Read MoreAnyone 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 More“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 MoreMarilea 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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