In many ways, Sabeeha Rehman’s memoir, Threading My Prayer Rug, is an immigrant’s story of assimilation
REVIEW: Threading My Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Rehman
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell once clogged Cheryl Strayed’s toilet. She also untangled Naomi Wolf’s jewelry.
Review: Tell It Short — A Guide to Writing Your Family History in Brief by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Most amateur genealogists manage something less than the accounting of Solomon Grundy, of English nursery rhyme fame. Assembling names and dates into a database…
Review — The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words, edited by Barry Day
“This is not another biography of Raymond Chandler,” editor Barry Day asserts in the introduction to The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words “…
Review: There Was A Fire Here by Risa Nye
Review by Vicki MaykIt was an unremarkable Sunday, Risa Nye writes. There were pancakes for breakfast, newspapers to be read, school projects, Disney videos and an early play date for one of her three children. Those moments of normalcy on October 20, 1991 did not last. Before the day was over, a wildfire would destroy…
Review: Realizing River City by Melissa Grunow
Married at 21 and divorced at 25, [Grunow] tries to find compassion from several men, but quickly discovers how relationships can go from promising to disappointing.
Review: This Is Not a Confession by David Olimpio
David Olimpio’s This Is Not a Confession (Awst Press, 2016) is at turns eloquently self-conscious, wry, and lyrical.
Review: A Backpack, A Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka by Lev Golinkin
“Did you hear? America is closing the border. The U.S. Congress will stop accepting Soviet Jews: anyone who’s not registered in Vienna won’t be able to go to America.”
Review: Fat Girl, Skinny by Amye Archer
“It was not the love of a man that drove me to finally confront my growing waistline;” Amye Archer writes, “rather, it was the leaving of one
Review: White Walls by Judy Batalion
Batalion’s relationship with her mother was thwarted by walls—both the emotional walls of dealing with her mother’s underlying illness and the physical barriers built from piles of junk.
