Discussing their multi-parent, polyamorous family and childhood, Koe Creation’s memoir "This Heart Holds Many" is about growing up and becoming an adult in a non-standard family situation. The narration follows two parallel threads.... Read More

"Bloodflowers" is a nuanced, scholarly analysis of the brief but influential career of photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode, whose family fled Nigeria’s 1960s civil war for London. He subsequently lived in Washington and New York until his... Read More

“How can you narrate terror?” This question is a central focus of Guillermo Saccomanno’s "77", set during the 1977 reign of terror in Argentina, the Dirty War. The military coup d’état of 1976 led to the killing of over thirty... Read More

"Saint Unshamed" is a triumphant memoir about how one man managed to find a way out of a culture that would silence him. In his memoir, "Saint Unshamed", actor and writer Kerry Ashton likens shame to an insidious disease that threads... Read More

Marusya Bociurkiw’s "Food Was Her Country" is a sweet, concise memoir that uses food as an effective metaphor for connection and love. Bociurkiw is the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants whose connection to her culture and family is... Read More

Ben Barnz’s partner has a theory that there is a major generational shift for gay people every five years. This book, then, is a memoir from almost four zeitgeist changes ago. Beginning in the week of the 9/11 attacks, "We" is a taste... Read More

Best known for the influence of her store, Mnasidika, and her association with Janis Joplin, Peggy Caserta has the devil’s own luck. Relentless and relentlessly unafraid to use all the advantages at her disposal, her story is a wild... Read More

Stark, moving, and filled with rays of light, Lara Lillibridge’s memoir of growing up straight in a dysfunctional lesbian home takes readers far beyond names and labels into the heart of what it means to be “family.” Written as... Read More