Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs
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…
Beautiful Thing
by Sonia Faleiro“A tour de force of heartrending reportage . . . which blends rigorous journalistic research with the narrative skills of a novelist. . ….
Bandit
by Molly BrodakA “raw, poetic and compulsively readable” (Kathryn Stockett) memoir by a woman whose father robbed banks.
Barefoot to Avalon
by David PayneFrom New York Times notable author David Payne, “the most gifted American novelist of his generation” (Dallas Morning News), comes an astonishing memoir of…
