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.
Kreis Beall, who helped create Blackberry Farm, one of the South’s most heavenly resorts, explores in lyrical prose what happens when her life falls apart.
In her humorous and thoughtful memoir, Somebody’s Gotta Do It, Martini channels her outrage over the 2016 election into energy for her local government.
Bess Kalb’s heartfelt, hilarious memoir pays tribute to her beloved—and opinionated—grandma.
Everything I Know About Love recounts Dolly Alderton’s social and romantic mishaps through essays, satirical emails and recipes.
Philip Kennicott’s insight into the way music speaks to us as we wend our way toward inevitable death makes this book an unforgettable triumph.
Erin Khar’s memoir, Strung Out, is a compassionate account of her illness and will surely be the gold standard for women writing about heroin addiction.
Alex Halberstadt slowly pulls away the curtain draped over his family’s unhappiness and discovers that his grandfather served as a bodyguard to Stalin.
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