Narrator Robin Miles bringing the same warmth and depth of characterization to Cicely Tyson’s memoir as she did to Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste.
More than an autobiography, this is an examination of how a person can use their gifts to make a difference and the mindset required to act on that goal.
Anyone raised as a girl will be able to relate to something in Girlhood, and those who weren’t will marvel at this book’s transformative perspective.
It’s impossible to overstate just how famous Sharon Stone was in the 1990s, and in her generous new memoir, she writes about it all.
Jenny Lawson’s fourth book is a loop-de-loop of an emotional roller coaster that swoops from poetic to profane, madcap to moving and back again.
There is pain in every divorce story, but not every divorce story can be related by a narrator as capable as Gina Frangello.
Joyful, righteous, indignant, self-assured, exuberant: These are all words that could describe Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language.
After Julie Metz discovered “a vault of secrets” in her mother’s lingerie drawer, she went searching for information about her family’s prewar life in Austria.
The essays in Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing are funny, profane and deceptively loose, as if Lauren Hough is talking to you late at night in a quiet bar.
Solnit’s astute observations of the literary life and the San Francisco art scene make for fascinating reading.
Phair skillfully explores the female experience in the music industry and riot grrrl-era feminism.
Theo Padnos recounts being kidnapped and imprisoned by operatives of al-Qaida in his gripping memoir, Blindfold.
Elizabeth Miki Brina searches for whether love can heal a family traumatized by racism and colonization in her moving memoir, Speak, Okinawa.
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