Motion Dazzle by Jocelyn Jane Cox is a tribute to her mother, a love letter to her son, and a testament to resilience as a caregiver.
REVIEW: Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir by Molly Gaudry
All over Fit Into Me are the holes in our lives made by grief, changing self, fear, and the unknown.
REVIEW: Better: A Memoir of Wanting To Die by Arianna Rebolini
An extraordinary hybrid, weaving confessional narrative, exhaustive research, and cultural analysis.
REVIEW: Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder by Lisa Knopp
Throughout the book, Knopp is braiding, raveling. She braids past with present and future.
REVIEW: Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin by Sunny Dhillon
The hiding Sunny Dhillon speaks of in the title of his deceptively charming, but searingly frank memoir, begins right out of the gate, in the preface.
REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser
Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashram….
REVIEW: Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire by Anastasiia Fedorova
A hybrid memoir with a sociological framework that interrogates the paradox between private expressions of sexuality and their depictions in larger culture.
REVIEW: The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere by Nicholas Triolo
In the opening pages, Nicholas Triolo describes the scene of his collapse at the finish line of the Western States 100.
REVIEW: Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love by Zefyr Lisowski
Culturally, we don’t often associate horror movies with helping us to live through our traumatic experiences.
REVIEW: The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin
In The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin weaves together themes of isolation, chronic pain, and the restorative power of quiet observation.
