I think it’s safe to say that Sue William Silverman thinks about death more than you or I…
Review: How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences by Sue William Silverman
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: Self-Ish: A Transgender Awakening, by Chloe Schwenke
It seems unbelievable at first that a woman with her job experience would find herself struggling to stay employed.
Book Review in Prayer Form: The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid by Ronna Russell
By Amy FishHeavenly Father (the Jewish one), thank you for bringing to me The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid by Ronna Russell (April 2019, Black Rose Writing) for review. At first, I thought it would be tricky, given that I have no background knowledge of this faith, but I quickly got caught up in…
Review: Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Edited and With an Introduction by Lise Funderburg
Lise Funderburg has collected diverse stories of parenthood and childhood, of love, loss…
Review: How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones chronicles his path toward self-realization and self-acceptance with astonishing grace…
Review: Edna’s Gift: How My Broken Sister Taught Me to Be Whole by Susan Rudnick
As a woman diagnosed with MRKH, my editor was eager to send me her book to review, and I was eager to read it.
Review: These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters
The … memoir brings to mind Frankenstein’s creature: assembled from parts; shouldn’t be alive; yet lives and invokes great compassion.
Review: If I Don’t Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings edited by Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman
I’d been to war, but nothing I had ever gone through even comes close to what these survivors went/are still going through.
Reviews of Three Adoption Memoirs: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung; and Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe by Lori Jakiela; An Adoptee Lexicon by Karen Pickell
With its built-in interrogation of what it means to belong to a family, adoption offers a rich context for memoir.
Review: Hippie Chick: Coming of Age in the ‘60s by Ilene English
The feeling of creating a community of unknown but like-minded souls is intoxicating.
