Dena Moes has such a command as a storyteller. Her voice is intimate, funny, and vivid.
Review: The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal by Dena Moes
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: When You Learn the Alphabet by Kendra Allen
In these essays, Allen grapples with race and racism, family in love and in anger, gender roles, religion, war and trauma, and death and life.
Review: Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston
I’d only been alive about a decade the first time I looked through The Window.
Review: Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
Backman shifts deftly into nonfiction with his unconventional essay collection, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World…
Review: Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-Tuk and Wheelchair by Suzanne Kamata
The mundane becomes a miracle when I look at the world through travelers’ eyes.
Review: How to Be Loved by Eva Hagberg Fisher
Candor is the best quality of Eva Hagberg Fisher’s How to Be Loved….
Review: Made in Mexico: Hollywood South of the Border by Luis I. Reyes
His approach exploring Hollywood’s connection to Mexico is by no way restricted to Studio movie….
REVIEW: A Cuban Refugee’s Journey to the American Dream: The Power of Education by Gerardo M. Gonzalez
Gonzalez’s debut memoi…, is a heart-warming and resilient story about an educator’s commitment to bettering the world around him.
Review: Becoming by Michelle Obama
The word “becoming” means not only attractive, but describes a transition into another state of being….
Review: Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City by Philip Brady
A blurb on the back cover of … Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City describes it as a “high-spirited flash memoir.”
