The memoir’s inciting incident is the death of her estranged husband who is struck by lightning while boating.
Review: The Red Ribbon: A Memoir of Lightning and Rebuilding After Loss by Nancy Freund Bills
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom edited by Deborah Santana
Editor Deborah Santana compiles work from an ensemble of invigorating women.
Review: The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out by William Dameron
William Dameron writes, “Conversion therapy doesn’t always occur at a facility. Often, it takes place at the dining-room table.”
Review: Gray Is The New Black: A Memoir of Self-Acceptance by Dorothy Rice
Allowing her hair to go grey is only the beginning of Rice’s quest for self-acceptance and self-forgiveness.
Review: Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered – The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
In their dual memoir, dubbed the first of its kind by its publisher, Kilgariff and Hardstark write openly about mental illness….
Review: Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
Life stories, while different for everyone, sometimes share something in common.
Review: A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life by Lauren Kessler
What is life like behind bars? Unless you’re an animal in a zoo, a corrections officer, or have endured a prison sentence, chances are you don’t know.
Review: Seven at Sea by Erik Orton and Emily Orton
…freedom is often presented as the solution to stressful, overcommitted lifestyles, but it usually comes with a caveat.
Review: This Fish Is Fowl: Essays of Being by Xu Xi
Though the subject is serious, Xi finds a balance by weaving in references from Angry Birds to Malcolm in the Middle along the way.
Review: Mama, Mama, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide to the Newly Single Parent by Lara Lillbridge
Four Ways to Relate to and Appreciate Mama, Mama, Only Mama If You Are Not a Newly Single Parent (or a Parent at all) and Concluding Remarks…
