Piece by Piece looks at not just things, but the psychological and emotional reasons why it hurts so much to lose them
INTERVIEW: Kim Danielson author of Piece by Piece: A Life Remembered through Things Lost
REVIEW: Trying: A Memoir by Chloe Caldwell
On its surface, this is a memoir about the time Caldwell spent “trying” for a baby, but as with all the best memoirs, it’s so much more than that.
REVIEW: Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson
There are books that understand something fundamental about place, not just as backdrop…but as a living force that shapes us.
REVIEW: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag by Michael Anthony and Chai Simone
I cracked open Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag without preconceived notions of what a graphic memoir could or should be
REVIEW: Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Tre Johnson
..Tre writes about… about the ways his families and communities have created joy despite everything in America that works to tamp that joy down.”
Bodies by Peter Cohen
They said it wasn’t bodies. The adults. The teachers. The ones who were supposed to know.
Wild Horses by Derek Maiolo
At sixteen, I stand before the mirror in my room, door locked, practicing.
Portsmouth Street by Deanna Benjamin
For years, I would tell my friends …. how my mother prayed,
Death and Barbers by William F. Schulz
Paul Milligan was buried at the very hour he was supposed to be cutting my hair.
FL-110 by Ross Flournoy
The room is stuffy — almost suffocating. It’s a few degrees too warm and there’s nary a window in sight….
