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Love Is An Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar

Randa Jarrar | Love Is An Ex-Country | Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this ‘viscerally elegant’ and ‘intimately edgy’ memoir of a

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Everybody (Else) Is Perfect by Gabrielle Korn

Gabrielle Korn | Everybody (Else) Is Perfect | In her work as the former editor-in-chief of Nylon, Korn placed the worlds of beauty and fashion within the cultural context of internet feminism and

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For Now by Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles | For Now | Blending humour and meditation, the wide – ranging essay by award-winning poet Eileen Myles is a candid record of the political, social and aesthetic

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Don’t F*cking Panic by Kelsey Darragh

Kelsey Darragh | Don’t F*cking Panic | If you are one of the millions of people struggling to manage your mental health right now, stop whatever you are doing and read this interactive work

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The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business by John Browne

John Browne | The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business | Part memoir and part social criticism, The Glass Closet addresses the issue of homophobia that still pervades corporations around the world and unders

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Her Widow by Joan Alden

Joan Alden | Her Widow | Her Widow is the true story of a year in the author’s life, following the death of her wife, told through letters written by the author to her decease

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Failure To Appear by Emily L Quint Freeman

Emily L Quint Freeman | Failure To Appear | Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss, A Memoir is a memoir about a gay woman of conscience who became a fugitive, on the run for over nine

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Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

Gabrielle Hamilton | Blood, Bones & Butter | “I wanted the lettuce and eggs at room temperature . . . the butter-and-sugar sandwiches we ate after school for snack . . . the marrow bones my mothe

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No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami | No Modernism Without Lesbians | The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist m

Posted in Memoir Parenting & Families

Lifetime Guarantee by Alice Bloch

Alice Bloch | Lifetime Guarantee | Lifetime Guarantee is a memorial to Bloch’s sister, Barbara, who died of leukemia at the age of twenty. Bloch and her sister had planned to write the