What pushes Sasha LaPointe’s essays to another level are the themes distinctive to her individual story as an Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe punk rocker.
REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris, One Lesson at a Time by Jane Bertch
The French Ingredient is a testimony for the magic that ensues when you’re willing to embrace the unknown.
REVIEW: First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger
[This collection] begins with a title essay so moving, complex, and powerful that I had to put the book down just to let the work settle…
REVIEW: The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting by Lee Gutkind.
I was struck then and am struck now, having read Gutkind’s book, by the notion that confessional writing is subversive.
REVIEW: Splinters by Leslie Jamison
Splinters follows the twisted, unexpected journey of becoming a new parent.
REVIEW: The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
The Hurricane Book by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñonesis a hybrid memoir and history of her family and Puerto Rico
REVIEW: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Notes on Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Dr. Cornelia Griggs
A surgical resident’s memoir of the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic is an uncompromising account from healthcare’s front lines.
INTERVIEW & REVIEW: Sue William Silverman, Author of Acetylene Torch Songs
There’s a difference between truth and fact. Sure, we can’t just make stuff up, so CNF is rooted in actual experience.
REVIEW: Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways by Brittany Means
The memoir reconstructs the author’s complicated past, ordering a life of contradictions amid the fallibility of memory.
REVIEW: A Petit Mal: A Mother’s Healing Love Song by Ana María Caballero
The prize-winning memoir pushes the boundaries of the creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child’s seizure disorder.
