Category: Memoir

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

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

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

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

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

Mary L. Trump | Too Much And Never Enough | In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and D

Trisha Low | Socialist Realism | ‘As she recovers from a breakup with a lover who had meant everything to her, Trisha Low grapples with the meaning of everything, in memoir rich with

P. Carl | Becoming A Man | “A memoir that is jolting, honest, passionate, and beautifully written” (Claudia Rankine), Becoming a Man explores one man’s gender transition amid a

Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You | ‘Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her j

Samantha Irby | We Are Never Meeting in Real Life | With heartfelt candor and her usual side-splitting bite, humorist, essayist, and blogger at bitchesgottaeat.com Samantha Irby captures powerful emotio