Two books examine challenges women face having a baby: an LGBTQ memoir one and a second combining memoir and advice.
REVIEW: The Other Mothers by Jennifer Berney and The Trying Game by Amy Klein
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book by Megan Culhane Galbraith
Galbraith’s remarkable hybrid memoir focuses on the adoptee experience from both a personal and historical perspective.
REVIEW: Face: A Memoir by Marcia Meier
Reconstruction by surgery in Face aligns beautifully with reconstruction of memory and personal history through writing,
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.”
