“Memoir is the life wanting to be transformed. It is the life we have been waiting for.”
REVIEW: Wife | Daughter | Self : A memoir in essays by Beth Kephart
Category: Issues
REVIEW: Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel by Suzanne Roberts
The essays in Bad Tourist are less about describing the superficial details of someone’s travels than they are about a more intimate set of adventures.
REVIEW: Kissing Fidel: A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States by Magda Montiel Davis
Many Cuban exiliados — exiles — in the U.S. joke that their “BC” is “Before Castro,” the years before Fidel Castro took power.
The Fragility of Bowls by Gwen L. Martin
She is ninety-one, bedridden at home, and dying of congestive heart failure.
Curiously Colored & Timely Animals + Other Things Forgotten Post Surgery by Paul Rousseau
The clamp attaches to the operating table to hold the head absolutely still…
Thirteen by Claire Sicherman
It’s the summer you turn thirteen when we travel to Prague to visit our ancestors.
My Grandma Picks Fights with the Contestants on The Price is Right by K.B. Carle
She wears Lederhosen though she doesn’t know it’s Lederhosen.
Back Seat by Brian Benson
I sit, quiet, clutching my bony elbows, watching Jason’s dark arm hairs dance in the wind…
Wild Medicine by Rachel Bunting
This hawk is the first really wild thing I have touched.
A Measure of Men by SJ Sindu
The first time I dressed in men’s clothes, I looked in the mirror and cried.
