A Life in Pieces, made up of thirty short essays, is a wonderful rendering of fragments of a woman’s life in which the author, Jo-Ann Wallace, gains insight, asks questions, […]
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Away From It All: A Wyoming Love Story
Twenty years after a halcyon summer spent working in Yellowstone National Park as a young adult, Marcia Hensley is a divorced single mom, restless and wondering where her life is […]
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No other word fits Qin Sun Stubis’s latest memoir, Once Our Lives, better than the word odyssey. The index of characters and opening timeline let readers know that they are […]
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Families that adopt give from the heart, even though they have no biological connection to the child. But sometimes they’re reluctant to tell an adopted child about the life she […]
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“Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.” ~Michelle Obama In Zita Arocha’s […]
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“At the age of seven in the summer of 1965, I lived on an island in Galway, Ireland with my mother Deborah Love, father Peter Matthiessen, and my twelve-year-old stepbrother […]
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