Memoir and Autobiography

Booth Girls: Pregnancy, Adoption & the Secrets We Kept

Sunday July 18, 2021 by Paula Shaffer Robertson

Author: Kim Heikkila

Suddenly, your mother blurts out, “When I was twenty, before I met your dad, I got pregnant and had a baby that I gave up for adoption. You have a […]

Categories: Memoir and Autobiography

The Other Mothers

Thursday July 1, 2021 by Dorothy Rice

Author: Jennifer Berney

The Other Mothers (Source Books, 2011), by accomplished essayist Jennifer Berney, is a moving and engaging chronicle of one couple’s very personal struggle to become parents. Berney’s first published memoir […]

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Emma’s Laugh: The Gift of Second Chances

Monday June 28, 2021 by Mary Jarvis

Author: Diana Kupershmit

Diana Kupershmit’s moving memoir about raising their special needs daughter is heartfelt and deeply personal. Emma was born with the translocation of the second and fourth chromosomes, a chromosomal abnormality […]

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In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World

Thursday June 24, 2021 by Mary Ann Moore

Author: Kirsteen MacLeod

Kirsteen MacLeod refers to herself as “a serial retreater, creating islands of space and time, a week here, a month there, to answer a faint call, barely heard above the […]

Categories: Memoir and Autobiography, Nonfiction

Don’t Say a Word: A Daughter’s Two Cents

Saturday June 19, 2021 by Paula Shaffer Robertson

Author: Elizabeth Roper Marcus

Harebrained, kooky, delirious, naïve, wacky, confused, foolish, hoodwinked: all adjectives that could be attributed to Edna and Leo Roper, the parents of author Elizabeth Roper Marcus. In her memoir, Don’t […]

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The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine

Friday June 18, 2021 by Mary Jo Doig

Author: Robin Clifford Wood

If you’ve never heard of the early 20th century author Rachel Field, kindly know that Robin Clifford Wood has just published a richly researched, hybrid-structured biography/memoir of the extraordinary woman […]

Categories: Memoir and Autobiography

Memoir and Autobiography

Memoir and Autobiography

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