The memoir in essays excavates all the layers of what home is from the perspective of someone whose childhood home was never one place.
REVIEW: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays by Megan Harlan
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REVIEW: Face: A Memoir by Marcia Meier
Reconstruction by surgery in Face aligns beautifully with reconstruction of memory and personal history through writing,
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: In the Shadow of the Valley by Bobi Conn
“Home,” Conn writes early on in her book, “Can anyone define that?….”
Review: The Virgin of Prince Street by Sonja Livingston
…in search of comfort and perhaps a few answers to the quandaries of midlife, Livingston returns to her childhood church of Corpus Christi…
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: The Fourth String by Janet Pocorobba
When a friend sends Pocorobba a magazine ad for free lessons on a traditional Japanese instrument called the shamisen, Pocorobba signs up.
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: The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
Review: Narrow River, Wide Sky by Jenny Forrester
One of the more useful tips I’ve received about writing memoir is this: when the material is hot, try to write cool.
