Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs
One Soldier’s War
by Arkady Babchenko“By turns horrific, sad, and funny, [One Soldier’s War] fills a big gap by providing us with the first-person experiences of an articulate Russian…
Ohitika Woman
by Mary Brave Bird“Mary Brave Bird brings to life the invisible. A grim yet gripping account.” —The Boston Globe
Not a Happy Camper
by Mindy Schneider“Hilarious . . . [Mindy Schneider] draws a funny portrait of her younger self in a summer setting that anyone who has ever drunk…
Native
by Sayed KashuaWith his unique perspective as an Israeli Palestinian, Sayed Kashua’s collection of personal essays is a frank, irreverent, thought-provoking exploration of discovering one’s identity,…
My Crazy Century
by Ivan Klíma“Klíma has endured as a writer, endured as a human being, writing of the great themes of freedom, honesty, and love and politics, and…
Monster
by Sanyika Shakur“Radiates [power] with dangerous aplomb . . . Attests not only to Mr. Shakur’s journalistic eye for observation, but also to his novelistic skills…
Meet Me in the In-Between
by Bella PollenA provocative and lively memoir in stories by the inimitable and bestselling author of The Summer of the Bear.
Light Years
by Susanna Moore“A lush and beautiful book; her reminisces read in many cases like a series of dreams… Light Years artfully recalls a time when life…
Lights On, Rats Out
by Cree LeFavourA raw, intense and intimate account of one gifted young woman’s dangerously entangled relationship with a psychiatrist in her defiant twenties.
The Last Holiday
by Gil Scott-Heron“Leave it to Scott-Heron to save some of his best for last. This posthumously published memoir, The Last Holiday, is an elegiac culmination to…
