Judy Mundle was astounded when a Japanese American work colleague—rendered here as Janet Hayashi—confided that she had been a block manager at an American internment camp during World War II. In this poignant memoir, she reveals the... Read More

Jennifer Croft’s "Homesick" is a tender, disturbing memoir of sisterly love that penetrates the insular world of childhood to reveal its secrets, loyalties, and fears. Croft, an author and translator by profession, proves fascinated... Read More

Behrouz Boochani is a young Kurdish journalist, poet, and refugee imprisoned on Australia’s Manus Island, and that his astonishing memoir "No Friend but the Mountains" exists at all is a miracle and a testament to his resilience. After... Read More

In her stunning memoir "The Expedition", Chris Fagan details her trip with her husband, Marty, through remote, harsh, and otherworldly Antarctica, a place that presents challenges unlike any others on Earth. At minus twenty-two degrees... Read More

"A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga" is a memoir that’s broad in scope yet sharp in its depiction of apartheid South Africa. Joan Bismillah’s sophisticated memoir "A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga" covers a strenuous time... Read More

Ask in Prayer is an earnest memoir about a spiritual life led at the fringes of American religions. Tom Bowers’s contemplative memoir Ask in Prayer is about a search for, and a discovery of, a seeker’s faith. Bowers’s is a story of... Read More

"Agony to Agony" is both a history and a memoir. It gives an insider’s view of Burma during turbulent political times. Patrick Yay’s memoir "Agony to Agony" is about life in postcolonial Burma (now Myanmar) and recounts Yay’s time... Read More

His life was magical and euphoric. He was invincible, brilliant, and super positive. Everything he wanted could be his. “You think you’re just happy, that everything is going your way and you don’t have a problem. But you do,”... Read More