Babette Fraser Hale’s latest book, entitled This Familiar Heart, appears at first to evoke a sort of seventies Love Story theme. That movie, starring Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neil, though […]
Read MoreHow does one cope with the complexities of unwarranted guilt? That is a crucial question that Debbie Chein Morris is striving to answer in her poignant memoir, We Used to […]
Read MoreWhat an appropriate title for this book! This is a journal of the time before, during, and after Betsy Gall’s husband takes his own life. She discusses the stresses of being […]
Read MoreHow far should a daughter go to fix a fraught relationship with her mother? That’s the question posed on the back cover of Rica Ramos’s memoir, Nobody’s Daughter. Ramos chronicles […]
Read MoreEarly abandonment, physical and verbal abuse, neglect, and chaos take a toll on Mary Beth O’Connor beginning at a very early age. With a mother who disconnects emotionally from her […]
Read MoreA plane touches tarmac in Chengdu, China, in 1980 as the memoir Whispers from the Valley of the Yak opens. The author has returned to her birthplace with her parents, […]
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