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.
Natasha Trethewey’s Mississippi inflection is soothing as she lays out her tale, and listeners will feel totally at ease as they hear a master at work.
In beautiful prose, May shows us that there are benefits to leaning in to difficult times, even though our culture is set up to resist them.
Throughout this candid, accomplished memoir, actress Demi Moore provides fascinating insight into the movie business.
This is a well-rounded, well-written portrait of an artist that will appeal to anyone who loves a good celebrity memoir.
Homeira Qaderi’s searing memoir Dancing in the Mosque tells the story of one woman who could not conform to the strictures of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
Ruth Coker Burks tells of HIV-positive men in the deeply conservative state of Arkansas, where the stigma of homosexuality is nearly as deadly as the virus.
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