I was pretty much sold on the NetGalley blurb for The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir: Teenage Esther Hicks…
Stephanie Land’s memoir Maid describes supporting her daughter and herself, as they slip through the (massive) cracks of our social…
I was interested in Saltwater in the Blood: Surfing, Natural Cycles and the Sea's Power to Heal, by Easkey Britton,…
In the beginning of The Throne of Caesar, it's just before the Ides of March, 44 BCE. Gordianus the Finder…
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, by Adrienne Brodeur, really is a wild memoir. Although none of the…
Cinelle Barnes' memoir Monsoon Mansion is like Educated or The Glass Castle, because it feels like reading fiction, with the…
Shonda Buchanan's memoir about family and ethnic identity, Black Indian, is an upsetting account that still reads like fiction, where…
The Hypothetical Girl by Elizabeth Cohen is a collection of short stories of love, identity and internet. Each character is…
Last summer, I went to see Three Identical Strangers, a documentary about identical triplets who were separated at birth and…
The East End by Jason Allen is an upstairs-downstairs of the Hamptons, where everyone has a different style of misery. The…
When I started reading Girl in Translation, I mistook it for a memoir, and not in a good way. The…
Out East is a coming-of-age memoir about finding love and identity in the Hamptons party scene. Recent grad John Glynn joins…
Educated by Tara Westover describes her completely off-grid upbringing in a Mormon survivalist sect, her path to college and an…
Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside by Quincy Carroll tells the story of two very different expats…
Summer's Complaint was described as a medical investigation, but I found it was much more of a family memoir. I…
The popular BBC show Call The Midwife tells the story of young nurse, Jenny Lee, and her fellow midwives at…
Tayo Emmanuel's new novel Echoes From The Past is written in Nigerian English, which helps establish the setting early on. Just…
I got First Comes Love from NetGalley, but ugh. I mean, I hated The One and Only, because it was…
I’m predisposed to love expat memoir, but Karma Gone Bad by Jenny Feldon chronicles just how hard is it to…