Category: Memoir

Failure Is Not NOT an Option | Patrick Hinds | Patrick Hinds has failed. A lot. In fact, he’s kind of an expert at it–which is why he’s uniquely qualified to say that failure is a good thing.

Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls | T. Kira Madden | Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teen

Ordinary Girls | Jaquira Díaz | In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age.

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Fieldwork | Iliana Regan | From National Book Award–nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childh

Burn The Place | Iliana Regan | Iliana Regan grew up the youngest of four headstrong girls on a small farm in Indiana. While gathering raspberries as a toddler, Regan learned to only

Hijab Butch Blues | Lamya H | A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and rad

Another Appalachia | Neema Avashia | When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “There are Indian people in West Virginia?” A queer A

Knocking Myself Up | Michelle Tea | From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-brea

Diary Of A Misfit | Casey Parks | When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her past

Pretty Baby | Chris Belcher | A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that up