memoir

The Book of Essie

I was pretty much sold on the NetGalley blurb for The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir: Teenage Esther Hicks…

1 year ago

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive

Stephanie Land’s memoir Maid describes supporting her daughter and herself, as they slip through the (massive) cracks of our social…

2 years ago

Saltwater in the Blood: Surfing, Natural Cycles and the Sea’s Power to Heal

I was interested in Saltwater in the Blood: Surfing, Natural Cycles and the Sea's Power to Heal, by Easkey Britton,…

3 years ago

The Throne of Caesar

In the beginning of The Throne of Caesar, it's just before the Ides of March, 44 BCE. Gordianus the Finder…

4 years ago

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, by Adrienne Brodeur, really is a wild memoir. Although none of the…

4 years ago

Monsoon Mansion

 Cinelle Barnes' memoir Monsoon Mansion is like Educated or The Glass Castle, because it feels like reading fiction, with the…

5 years ago

Black Indian

Shonda Buchanan's memoir about family and ethnic identity, Black Indian, is an upsetting account that still reads like fiction, where…

5 years ago

The Hypothetical Girl

The Hypothetical Girl by Elizabeth Cohen is a collection of short stories of love, identity and internet. Each character is…

5 years ago

Identical Strangers: A Memoir That Reads Like Specfic

Last summer, I went to see Three Identical Strangers, a documentary about identical triplets who were separated at birth and…

5 years ago

The East End

The East End by Jason Allen is an upstairs-downstairs of the Hamptons, where everyone has a different style of misery. The…

6 years ago

Girl In Translation

When I started reading Girl in Translation, I mistook it for a memoir, and not in a good way. The…

6 years ago

Out East

Out East is a coming-of-age memoir about finding love and identity in the Hamptons party scene. Recent grad John Glynn joins…

6 years ago

Educated

Educated by Tara Westover describes her completely off-grid upbringing in a Mormon survivalist sect, her path to college and an…

6 years ago

Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside

Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside by Quincy Carroll tells the story of two very different expats…

6 years ago

Summer’s Complaint

Summer's Complaint was described as a medical investigation, but I found it was much more of a family memoir. I…

6 years ago

“Call The Midwife” Memoir Trilogy Offers More Poplar Details For TV Fans | (The) Absolute

The popular BBC show Call The Midwife tells the story of young nurse, Jenny Lee, and her fellow midwives at…

6 years ago

Echoes From The Past

Tayo Emmanuel's new novel Echoes From The Past is written in Nigerian English, which helps establish the setting early on. Just…

6 years ago

Books I Am Not Reading

I got First Comes Love from NetGalley, but ugh. I mean, I hated The One and Only, because it was…

8 years ago

Karma Gone Bad

I’m predisposed to love expat memoir, but Karma Gone Bad by Jenny Feldon chronicles just how hard is it to…

8 years ago