Grounded in keen observations and contextualized in a crash course of history, "How the Rhino Lost His Horn" is a knowledgeable, tantalizing travel memoir–cum–social critique. Chronicling a journey from the Amish countryside to the... Read More
Molly Gaudry’s "Fit Into Me" is a hybrid book that challenges notions of the self, authenticity, reliability, appropriation, and truth. This multigenre work—both a novel-within-a-memoir and a memoir-within-a-novel—follows the... Read More
Sim Butler’s incisive memoir "And the Dragons Do Come" is about raising a transgender child in the Deep South. Butler assumed that his firstborn child was a boy. But after years of her fervent insistence that she was a girl, coupled... Read More
Catharina Coenen’s memoir-in-essays "Unexploded Ordnance" draws on history, biology, philosophy, and linguistics to explore social trauma and unspoken, inherited memories. A German immigrant, Coenen moved to the United States for... Read More
Full of empathy, humor, and love, Kelly Foster Lundquist’s memoir "Beard" details the trajectory of her marriage to a gay man. When Lundquist and Devin first met as counselors at a Christian summer camp, their connection was immediate.... Read More
Helen Moat’s pensive, enlightening nature book "While the Earth Holds Its Breath" explores ways of coping with the grey darkness of winter across cultures and traditions. Moat, who struggles with winter’s drizzle and grey mists,... Read More
Finding comfort, meaning, and timeless human connection in Britain’s ancient megaliths, Fiona Robertson’s luminous memoir "Stone Lands" explores the inner reaches of grief and how, even when confronting the inevitability of loss and... Read More
Leah Altman’s bold memoir-in-essays is about reclaiming her Native American identity after a transracial adoption and traumatic upbringing. Following the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, the book reports, up to 35% of Native American... Read More