Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs
Family Meals
by Michael TuckerThe follow-up to his celebrated memoir, Living in a Foreign Language, Michael Tucker’s Family Meals is a heartwarming book about family and the challenges…
Everything Is Wonderful
by Sigrid Rausing“Sigrid Rausing’s memoir is a charming, unsettling, and unusually intimate glimpse into the life of an Estonian village in transition.” —Anne Applebaum
The Deserter’s Tale
by Joshua Key“Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . Key’s clear voice rings out . . . with anguish…
The Dancer from Khiva
by Bibish“Will be read in a single sitting and not soon forgotten. This is a new kind of literature, one that offers the reader not…
Dadland
by Keggie CarewA poignant and engaging family memoir about a daughter who is racing to assemble her father’s story—one that includes parachuting into France and Burma…
Confessions of a Mullah Warrior
by Masood FarivarFrom an Afghan with deep roots in his nation’s history, a courageous and evocative memoir of fleeing the Soviet invasion, coming of age in…
But You Did Not Come Back
by Marceline Loridan-IvensA phenomenal success in Europe, But You Did Not Come Back is an important addition to the library of Holocaust literature—a deeply moving story…
The Butterfly Mosque
by G. Willow WilsonThe extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a…
The Broken King
by Michael ThomasFrom the author of Man Gone Down—a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award—comes a deeply personal…
Beautiful Thing
by Sonia Faleiro“A tour de force of heartrending reportage . . . which blends rigorous journalistic research with the narrative skills of a novelist. . ….
