Jessa Crispin’s voluble memoir "My Three Dads" entwines intense personal experiences with compelling social observations. Crispin, after renting a house in a blighted neighborhood of Kansas City, began to feel haunted. After meeting... Read More

Corie Adjmi’s captivating novel "The Marriage Box" is situated among the opulent but restrictive culture of Syrian American Jews in the 1980s. Casey was a cheerleader at her New Orleans high school, and she mingled with a diverse range... Read More

In Dung Kai-cheung’s collection of short stories "A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On", material objects become like talismans that affect the flow of life. These ninety-nine stories were first published in 1999, soon after... Read More

Jillian Haslam’s compelling memoir "A Voice out of Poverty" recounts the penury of her Calcutta childhood and her subsequent determination to become a force for social change. The daughter of a British father and English-Armenian... Read More

M. S. King’s "Dad Spelled Backward" chronicles his and his wife’s frustrating yet fulfilling quest to have a baby. King, a New York dentist and comedian, was in his fifties when he met his wife, Gaby. Though, when King was younger,... Read More

"Ivy Lodge" is a resonant memoir that looks beyond the “opulent facade” of a mid-century family’s stately home. Built in the 1800s, Linda Murphy Marshall’s childhood home bore the distinguished name “Ivy Lodge.” In 1960,... Read More

Ben Aitken’s "The Marmalade Diaries", is about becoming housemates with a much older stranger during Britain’s second Covid-19 lockdown. Aitken met Winnie in October of 2020. Winnie’s children were concerned about their... Read More

Jonathan T. Bailey’s evocative, candid memoir "When I Was Red Clay" explores spirituality, heritage, and the lives and landscapes we choose to inhabit. Bailey grew up in a large Mormon family in rural Utah. His parents’ marriage was... Read More