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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Author: Jo-Ann Wallace
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Memoir and Autobiography
Away From It All: A Wyoming Love Story
Author: Marcia Hensley
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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Once Our Lives
Author: Qin Sun Stubis
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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The Girl with Three Birthdays
Author: Patti Eddington
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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Guajira, the Cuban Girl
Author: Zita Arocha
“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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Castles & Ruins
Author: Rue Matthiessen
“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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