A story about maintaining personal integrity in strange and hostile surroundings in order to succeed, "Making My Way" is a compelling memoir. In Damaris Melo-Gyasi’s powerful memoir "Making My Way" is about how her girlhood dream of... Read More

Newsworthy happenings are given new, intimate dimensions in the inventive historical biography "American Jap Girl". Researcher Richard Y. Okumoto draws on documents, memory, and imagination to reconstruct his mother’s life, from her... Read More

"Momentum" is an emotive memoir about a lifetime spent searching for communal and political belonging. Emily Brown’s careful memoir "Momentum" fills in the gaps left by her dismantled family. The book’s opening scene—its only out... Read More

"Generation Jumping" is a testimonial memoir that celebrates family members who lived with faith. Set in the context of Christian faith, Steve Beal Sr.’s reflective but esoteric memoir "Generation Jumping" considers the deaths of... Read More

Covering a soldier’s service in Iraq in a point-by-point manner, "All Routes Are Amber" is an illuminating memoir. Martin F. Swirko’s candid memoir "All Routes Are Amber" chronicles his military service during the Iraq War. Swirko,... Read More

A follow-up to Drunk Mom, Jowita Bydlowska’s raw memoir "Unshaming" is about working to heal from alcohol addiction and the shame of relapse. About Bydlowska’s efforts to remain sober, setbacks, and the challenge of recovery, the... Read More

In Elizabeth Zaleski’s "The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure", quirky anecdotes proffer insights on family, relationships, and the self. Across five sections, the collection tackles “the trouble with” a variety... Read More

Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about memory, grief, home, and belonging. The hybrid essays combine poetry, stream-of-consciousness prose, scraps of dialogue, lists of... Read More