The Diary of a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Alcoholic follows Elli Rose Cikovic as alcohol becomes the fixed driver of her decisions from adolescence into adult life. After starting to drink in her teens, she began experiencing recurring blackouts that reshaped how she moved through school, relationships, and...

Olga Alexeeva did not move to America when her younger sister left Russia; it was only years later that she took the opportunity to leave the country of her birth. She shares with us the memories of her younger days in the Soviet Union, the...

Open Water by Alex Dean is a brutally honest memoir of a young man trapped in a mind and body that would not do what he wanted. The author describes his journey through mental and medical misdiagnoses, bullying, and periods of severe depression and uncertainty....

In his memoir Livin' It, Michael Perzel grew up in Philadelphia, first in the Abbotsford Projects and then in Mayfair. When his parents separate as he turns eleven, he begins living with unusual autonomy. He starts earning money, spending nights outside the house, and relying...

Babymaking by Vincentia Schroeter is a memoir that follows the author from a moment of settled adulthood into a years-long pursuit of parenthood, bound to marriage and prolonged medical care. After meeting Steve during a family gathering, she builds a life with him that turns...

Mixtape: A Memoir by Johnzelle Anderson tells the story of a life through music, memory, and hard-earned self-understanding. Structured as a playlist, the book unfolds track by track, beginning with Anderson’s birth in Roanoke, Virginia, and the complicated family world that surrounds him. Early chapters...

In Daughter Unbound: Breaking the Chains of Generational Trauma, Heather Jefferson talks about her childhood in a family affected by unresolved trauma. She shares how her mother’s mental illness, addiction, and abuse affected her life, along with a father who was gentle but emotionally distant....

The Woman in the Third Floor Front by Richard Scharine is a collection of prose pieces beginning with a series of short stories and followed by musings about his European ancestors. The author traces his life from a midwestern boyhood, through his career as a...

Laura Ingalls Wilder once wrote, “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all,” a sentiment that gently weaves its way through The Diaries of a Teenage Pilgrim: The Early Journey by Lydia...

Music defines us in ways we often don’t appreciate to the fullest. Music is history in sound, history that is heard and shared, and history that is a reflection of who we are. In Terry Blade’s Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes, the author shares his...