The … memoir brings to mind Frankenstein’s creature: assembled from parts; shouldn’t be alive; yet lives and invokes great compassion.
Review: These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
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.
Review: Lost Without the River: A Memoir by Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic
The youngest of seven children, Scoblic seems to mourn what time has erased, especially the family unit…
Review: In Another Place: With and Without my Father Norman Mailer by Susan Mailer
In her first memoir, Susan Mailer shines brightly as she presents vignettes of her own formative moments alongside valuable glimpses into the life and times of her father Norman.
Review: The Red Ribbon: A Memoir of Lightning and Rebuilding After Loss by Nancy Freund Bills
The memoir’s inciting incident is the death of her estranged husband who is struck by lightning while boating.
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.
