Courtney Gustafson woke up in her new home to find 30 cats living in her yard. She tells their stories in her poignant, beautifully written debut memoir, Poets Square.
Dogged by mental illness, poverty and arrests, Erika J. Simpson’s mother also filled their lives with magic, as told in Simpson’s wonderful debut memoir, This Is Your Mother.
Amanda Hess’ memoir, Second Life, reads like the ruminations and research of your funniest, smartest friend as it investigates the influence of tech on parenting.
Sarah Aziza’s stunning memoir, The Hollow Half, traces her Palestinian family’s history of violent displacement and embraces their legacy of survival and love.
Katie Goh’s memoir-history hybrid, Foreign Fruit, explores the origin story of the orange—and her own identity.
The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse traverses continents as debut memoirist Vinh Nguyen searches for the story of his father, who disappeared as he fled Vietnam.
Sarah Kendzior’s memoir, The Last American Road Trip, is a perceptive guide through a nation falling apart.
Phil Hanley’s frank, vulnerable, funny memoir recounts his journey from struggling student to successful comedian who wears his dyslexia “like a badge of honor.”
Poet Heather Christle traces the lives of her mother and Virginia Woolf in her meditative and often-beautiful memoir, In the Rhododendrons.
Martha S. Jones’ moving memoir, The Trouble of Color, traces her family’s history back five generations and will change the way readers understand race.
Chloe Dalton’s magical, endearing account of bonding with a wild hare is an enchanting meditation on what we gain when we allow the natural world to teach us.
Mornings Without Mii, Mayumi Inaba’s classic memoir now translated into English for the first time, tenderly describes the author’s life with her fluffy little helpmeet, a cat named Mii.
Bridgett M. Davis’ riveting and heartbreaking memoir Love, Rita is a homage to her sister and a sober reflection on the devastating impact that medical racism has on Black women.
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