Reconstruction by surgery in Face aligns beautifully with reconstruction of memory and personal history through writing,
REVIEW: Face: A Memoir by Marcia Meier
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington
Washington proves that familial caregiving is taken for granted by doctors, necessary for patients’ recovery, and frequently devastating.
REVIEW: Anything Will Be Easy after This: A Western Identity Crisis by Bethany Maile
Bethany Maile confronts the fabled American West with a sharp journalistic eye and deep personal insight.
REVIEW: Crossing the River: Seven Stories that Saved My Life by Carol Smith
The wisdom Carol Smith renders from these experiences reads like a gripping “how to” on coping with loss.
REVIEW: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
Disability Visibility allows those who are disabled to speak for and represent themselves.
REVIEW: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger
Through art critiques, interviews, and personal memories, Lilly Dancyger attempts to answer questions about her late father—and herself.
REVIEW: Between Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir by Evelyn Kohl La Torre
There was a time, not that long ago, when it was rare for a young woman from the United States to move to a remote village in another nation…
REVIEW: Wife | Daughter | Self : A memoir in essays by Beth Kephart
“Memoir is the life wanting to be transformed. It is the life we have been waiting for.”
REVIEW: Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel by Suzanne Roberts
The essays in Bad Tourist are less about describing the superficial details of someone’s travels than they are about a more intimate set of adventures.
REVIEW: Kissing Fidel: A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States by Magda Montiel Davis
Many Cuban exiliados — exiles — in the U.S. joke that their “BC” is “Before Castro,” the years before Fidel Castro took power.
