Krystal A Sital’s Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad reads like the best kind of novel: at once engrossing, vivid, rich in character, sound, taste, and smell.
Review: Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad by Krystal A. Sital
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence by Lisa Kohn
To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence is a riveting tale of a young woman’s survival in—and out—of a religious cult in the 1970s
Review: Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi
[Elaine] loved the American idea of France, but…her experience was that of Colonialism and racism, the very problems she meant to leave behind in the United States.
Review: The Promise of Failure: One Writer’s Perspective on Not Succeeding by John McNally
McNally’s idea for this book originated from Facebook, where many people only posted their “success” updates.
Review: Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
In what women know as a familiar and infuriating experience, Montgomery discovers physicians who won’t listen to her.
Review: Lenin’s Asylum by A.A. Weiss
Weiss has volunteered through the Peace Corps to spend 27 months in Moldova, a former Soviet Republic between Romania and Ukraine.
Review: Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Terese Marie Mailhot reflects on the challenges of negotiating the gap between the ugly truth and the art she hopes to make out of it
Review: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World by Jana Richman
Richman explores the sanctity and desire for solitude in fifteen essays on varying topics…
Review: When History Is Personal by Mimi Schwartz
Among Schwartz’s most thought-provoking pieces is “In The Land of Double Narrative.”
Review: The Year of No Summer: A Reckoning by Rachel Lebowitz
This is not a collection of stories, essays or fairy tales, though it has elements of all three.
