“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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Author: Rue Matthiessen
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Memoir and Autobiography
But You Look So Normal
Author: Claudia Marseille
Thriving Despite the Odds Ever wondered what words sound like to those who cannot hear them? I began to get a clue with Claudia Marseille’s description when she said, “My […]
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Honeymoon at Sea
Author: Jennifer Silva Redmond
“Soon, Watchfire was struggling up each oncoming wave and plunging down the other side, only to head up again, moving forward but seemingly going nowhere. It was as if something […]
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Standing at Water’s Edge
Author: Janice Post-White
Irony has a way of sometimes completely changing one’s trajectory. It was ironic that author Janice Post-White found herself deeply connected to cancer when Brennan, her four-year-old son, was diagnosed […]
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Untethered
Author: Deborah L Staunton
Talk about being untethered—merely reading Deborah L. Staunton’s memoir Untethered is enough to rattle the most mentally stable. This terse, poignant, sorrowful-tinged mix of prose and poetry tugs at your […]
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This Familiar Heart
Author: Babette Fraser Hale
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 […]
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