L. Annette Binder’s sensitive, grounded, and hopeful memoir "Child of Earth and Starry Heaven" is about the family impact of Alzheimer’s disease. Binder taps into a range of literary and scientific sources to reflect on her mother... Read More

"Maya Blue" is a startling memoir about the long road to recovery from trauma. Brenda Coffee’s gripping memoir "Maya Blue" is about being the wife of an addict and a survivor of kidnapping and sexual assault. Though the book is divided... Read More

Told in a stream-of-consciousness style that reflects the chaos of grief, "Blackbird" is an affecting memoir. Betsy Thibaut Stephenson’s grief-filled memoir "Blackbird" is about the loss of her son. Stephenson’s youngest child,... Read More

Casey Mulligan Walsh’s memoir "The Full Catastrophe" reveals how tragedy can become a path to freedom. Walsh begins her story in medias res—in the hospital, receiving news of her son’s death. The first chapter pivots back to her... Read More

"Twice the Family" is a memoir about faith, family, and doing right by others. In Julie Ryan McGue’s heartfelt memoir "Twice the Family", a woman who, with her twin sister, was adopted into a devout Catholic family shares her... Read More

Elegiac in tone, Jessica Kirkness’s "The House with All the Lights On" is a touching family memoir in which language and technology enable connections with deaf grandparents. Kirkness grew up next door to her grandparents, immigrants... Read More

Larry Carlat’s "A Space in the Heart" is a sensitive guidebook for grieving parents. Holding space for unspeakable grief, Carlat, who lost a son to suicide, draws on lived experience in this guide for fellow grieving parents,... Read More

Vibrant flashes of memory and studies in contrast mark "Out of Place", a memoir about the lasting effects of a military childhood. Mary E. McKnight’s expressive memoir "Out of Place" recounts her early adolescence as an American... Read More