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My Life, My Ethiopia
Mary Tadesse’s memoir entitled My Life, My Ethiopia illuminates the life of one of Ethiopia’s greatest women leaders. Born into a family that valued education, she was selected to travel and study abroad for the purpose of advancing not only herself, but the entire country, upon her return. […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, History, Review of the Month, War and its effects
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, History, Review of the Month, War and its effects
Recent Reviews
Memoir and Autobiography
Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
What an absolutely amazing and fascinating memoir/history/biography. The author, Catherine Ehrlich, is the granddaughter of Irma (Hutter) Kolmar Ehrlich. Irma’s life (she was born in 1890) spanned the turn of the 20th century, both World War I and World War II, and all of the upheavals wrought by […]
Love in Any Language: A Memoir of a Cross Cultural Marriage
A young American woman joins the Peace Corps and completes a stint in Peru. She finds love with young Peruvian man, whom she marries; they embark on a life adventure. This sounds like a movie or a novel, but it’s the real-life story of Evelyn Kohl La Torre […]
Like Love
Michele Morano’s memoir Like Love provides readers an exploratory look at what that four-letter L word means from childhood to adulthood. It’s a meandering adventure that takes the reader through the intricacies of relationships that come in many forms, from what happens when a mother leaves a father […]
