Lally Pia was born in Sri Lanka and raised in Ghana. When she was a baby, a fortune teller told her father that she would be a doctor someday. Her memoir The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy is a testament to the importance of resilience and... Read More

With chapters alternating between their two experiences with Vietnam, father-daughter duo Christina Vo and Nghia M. Vo’s soul-stirring memoir "My Vietnam, Your Vietnam" covers transgenerational understandings of cultural roots. In... Read More

Grace Loh Prasad’s memoir The Translator’s Daughter is about her life as an assimilated immigrant. Prasad left Taiwan when she was still a toddler. Even after her parents returned to Taiwan years later, she elected to remain in the... Read More

Physicist Claudia de Rham’s intimate scientific memoir "The Beauty of Falling" reveals the ups and downs of a life obsessed with gravity. After besting over ten thousand applicants, de Rham’s dream of becoming an astronaut was dashed... Read More

Katherine Leyton relates her pregnancy experiences to larger issues of femininity, parenthood, and bodily autonomy in her memoir "Motherlike". Leyton and her husband planned to have a child, but not quite so fast: when she learned she... Read More

To say that Chef Alain Ducasse, the recipient of 21 Michelin Stars, is a legend in the culinary world would be an understatement. Now, in his memoir "Good Taste", Ducasse reveals his vision of cuisine: naturality, or a style of cooking... Read More

paulo da costa’s heartbreaking memoir "Trust the Bluer Skies" is a bittersweet ode to memories of lost times and places. The book explores da costa’s relationship with his four-year-old son, Koah, during a months-long, pivotal trip... Read More

Denise Dorrance’s graphic memoir "Polar Vortex" is about returning home to tend to her ailing, forgetful mother. When her ninety-one-year-old mother Hilda falls at home, Dorrance races from England to Iowa to help. Her mother exhibits... Read More