Book Review
The Innermost House
by Meg Nola
Cynthia Blakeley’s poignant memoir "The Innermost House" explores her dysfunctional upbringing and family life in working-class Massachusetts. Born in 1958, Blakeley grew up along the shores of Cape Cod, a longstanding summer tourist...
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Influencing Death
by Meg Nola
A moving account of how a hospice nurse arrived at TikTok fame, "Influencing Death" covers end-of-life care with nuance. Infused with compassion, Penny Hawkins Smith’s memoir "Influencing Death" explores the troubled experiences that...
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Thoughts Like Buckshot
by Meg Nola
A bevy of topics are handled with candor and in an intimate style in the good-natured memoir "Thoughts Like Buckshot". Edward Fahey’s memoir-in-essays "Thoughts Like Buckshot" ponders a range of subjects with both ruminative depth and...
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Out of Place
by Meg Nola
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...
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Caught in the Turmoil of History
by Meg Nola
Moving at the engrossing pace of a novel, "Caught in the Turmoil of History" is an illuminating family biography. With a timeline sprawling from the late nineteenth century to the Cold War, Ivana Caccia and Maroje Mihovilović’s...
Book Review
Cigar Box Lithographs: Volume VI
by Meg Nola
A significant resource for collectors, "Cigar Box Lithographs: Volume VI" focuses on cigar box label depictions of Native Americans. Written by a collector of cigar boxes since the 1950s, Charles J. Humber’s "Cigar Box Lithographs...
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Heart-work
by Meg Nola
Eloquent, nuanced, and containing wry and poignant humor, the short story collection "Heart-work" illuminates Northeastern lives across the decades. About intimacy and interconnection, Roberta Silman’s short story collection...
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They Call You Back
by Meg Nola
Tim Z. Hernandez’s "They Call You Back" expands upon his prior documentary novel All They Will Call You, about the deaths of twenty-eight Mexican nationals in a California plane crash. In January of 1948, a plane carrying Mexican...