Bakari Sellers beautifully evokes the South Carolina low country to explain how its backbreaking poverty and history of relentless racism molded him.
For anyone who has wondered how their identity is impacted by the ways others see them, Fairest is an extraordinary story of one woman’s self-reckoning.
The Book of Rosy offers an unflinching look at conditions in U.S. detention centers and a reminder of the power of policy to change the course of lives.
Phuc Tran has written the great punk rock immigrant story and the best, the funniest and the most heartfelt memoir of the year.
Svenja O’Donnell uncovers long-held family secrets, interspersing her own research and travel with stories from her German mother and grandmother.
Stephanie Danler ranges over the whole of her life as the daughter of two parents who failed to provide their offspring with a safe and loving home.
Beloved crime novelist Laura Lippman has now written a smart, thoughtful, sometimes vulnerable, always witty collection of essays.
Maya Shanbhag Lang is an affable narrator who offers a blend of revelatory personal history and touching insight about her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease.
Helen Jukes’ beautiful debut memoir covers the year she spent quelling her anxiety by learning to keep bees.
Alderton makes for a delightful narrator despite, as she mentions, hating her posh, British boarding school accent. Her wit shines through.
Jennifer Finney Boylan knows that to write about dogs is to write about the very nature of love.
The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a stirring, inspiring rallying cry and an engaging, harrowing and often hilarious personal story.
The essays in Constellations will make you feel grateful to artists and writers who have transfigured their bodily suffering into a sacred creative release.
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