Somebody’s Daughter is part Midwestern Black girl bildungsroman and part family saga about the rippling effects of incarceration.
In Dear Senthuran, Akwaeke Emezi explodes human limitations by insisting on the imagination’s power to create worlds.
Danielle Henderson brings her family to life using humor as quick and sharp as the violence she survived as a child.
Krys Malcolm Belc’s growing realization that he identified as male happened as his wife bore children and as Belc decided to carry a child as well.
Michelle Zauner perfectly distills the palpable ache for her late mother and wraps her grief in an aromatic conjuring of her mother’s presence.
A bus ride to New Orleans in 1961 almost killed 13 Freedom Riders, but changed the South forever.
On July 24, 2014, Vince Granata’s 23-year-old brother, while experiencing schizophrenic psychosis, murdered their beloved mother.
Lilly Dancyger sets out to uncover the whole truth about her late father’s art, relationships and addiction, no matter how painful.
Alison Bechdel’s unique combination of personal narrative, the search for higher meaning and nonstop comic ingenuity will leave you pumped up and smiling.
Hamer uses his deep knowledge of gardens to great effect, creating a lush landscape into which a reader can disappear.
Suzanne Koven advises us not to ignore shame or try to defeat it but rather to allow it to shape us into better, more empathetic people.
Sarah Sentilles lifts her story of foster parenthood above the failures of flawed adults and reminds us of the limitless hopes of the human heart.
A magician never reveals their tricks, but fortunately for us, Derek DelGaudio doesn’t consider himself a magician.
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