The memoir examines a generational legacy of suicide, its impact on those left behind, and society’s attitudes about those who end their lives.
REVIEW: Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins
Written with honesty and grit, the memoir overturns stereotypes about addiction and recovery.
REVIEW: The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home by S.L. Wisenberg
A writer’s writer explores identity and what it means to be a woman in an essay collection that is funny, dark, and heartbreaking.
REVIEW: Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing by Abigail Thomas
A master memoirist mines ordinary life and spins it into prose revealing meaning in the passage of time.
REVIEW: The Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s by Mary MacCracken
The memoir thoughtfully explores the journey of caring for a spouse with Alzheimer’s disease and the struggle of caregiving.
REVIEW: Writing While Parenting by Ben Berman
The challenges of maintaining a writing life while parenting are the focus of an essay collection that also is a meditation on the writing craft.
REVIEW: Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar
The book offers a reflection on the natural world and examines the experience of birding on the author’s life and identity.
REVIEW: Dragons in my Classroom: A Teacher’s Memoir by Barbara Kennard
The challenges of a teaching career in the United States and in England are explored in this richly detailed memoir.
REVIEW: Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis
Essays exploring life’s losses, transformations and the challenges of being a memoirist comprise a graceful and lyrical collection.
REVIEW: The Preventorium: A Memoir by Susan Annah Currie
A long-forgotten American health crisis caused by tuberculosis is examined in a memoir of a childhood forever changed by the disease.
