“Recovering” Buddhist priest and “vegetable whisperer” Deborah Madison reveals the heart of a chef in her honest, beguiling memoir, An Onion in My Pocket.
Like Love is Michele Mrano’s collection of autobiographical essays about romantic relationships that are not quite amorous.
Listening to Sophie Heawood’s memoir is like having a gossipy brunch with your wittiest friend.
Debora Harding has not one but two mesmerizing stories to tell, and the emotional honesty of her razor-sharp prose will hook readers on page one.
Laila Lalami braids statistics and historical context with her lived experiences to illustrate how unjust policies can affect individual lives.
David A. Robertson’s Black Water is a family history embedded in a memoir that shimmers with love and pain.
In his 44-year career at the Washington Post, Leonard Downie Jr. was deeply engaged in making critical decisions about what was considered newsworthy.
Finding My Father is Deborah Tannen’s account of her father’s extraordinary life and her search for the truth behind his family, his work and his marriage.
Analytical yet lyrical, Seager’s memoir examines the parallels between searching for new life in the multiverse and starting over with a new life on Earth.
Eula Biss blends research, reflection and richly rendered personal experience into a compulsively readable memoir about money, art and capitalism.
Written in Latina journalist Maria Hinojosa’s honest, passionate voice, this memoir is, quite simply, beautiful.
The Erratics is an unflinching and empathetic memoir of past trauma and new outrage, dotted with precious moments of rueful levity and fleeting beauty.
This collection is essential reading, and its intimate writing style will help readers see disabled folks as the human beings they have always been.
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