In his totally original memoir, Louis Chude-Sokei captures the prejudices and tensions, pain and promise of being African in Jamaica and the United States.
When Harry Met Minnie is often a heart-rending read—humans and animals suffer, die and grieve—but it’s also studded with wit and musings on friendship.
The Other Mothers is a beautiful book about love, family, identity and queer community by a gentle and observant writer.
Sanctuary probes the concept of resilience, extracting it from dewy notions of rebirth and foregrounding the enduring pain of life after trauma.
Suleika Jaouad’s engrossing memoir, Between Two Kingdoms, paints a portrait of her experiences during and after treatment for leukemia.
Whatever your experience of grief, and whatever your experience of faith, The Night Lake by Liz Tichenor will manage to surprise you.
Not just another retrospective volume of popular works, the pieces in The Best of Me were chosen by David Sedaris himself, based on a metric only he could know.
In 1939, Hans Lichtenstein’s mother put him on a train from Berlin to England. In 2015, he and his son Jonathan returned to Berlin in search of peace.
Charlie Gilmour’s remarkable memoir, Featherhood, explains in lively, compelling detail how caring for an abandoned baby bird prepared him to become a father.
For anyone looking for a moving tale of finding a way to give the love we don’t receive, American Daughter will resonate.
Aftershocks is an intimate work told in an imaginative style, with the events that shaped its author rippling throughout her nonlinear story.
Maria Hinojosa tangles her personal story with the history of American immigration to offer one of the finest audiobooks of the year.
Lacy Crawford’s clear voice provides her younger self with a level of truth that has too long been withheld and offers moments of levity amid the darkness.
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