What 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, […]
Read MoreEggs In Purgatory is a memoir that starts with a suicide attempt by Genanne Walsh’s 89-year-old father, who is living in her home. He did not have a terminal illness […]
Read MoreIn “Wildflower Bouquet,” which is one of the prose poems in Plums for Months, author Zaji Cox says, “I love the way mismatched things will fit perfectly together to make […]
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