Becoming a Mom: An IVF Story by Liz Jauvtis chronicles the author’s deeply moving journey into motherhood. After being a babysitter to a single mother in her teen years, Liz decided she also wanted to be a mother someday. However, she did not expect to...

In Dance While the Fire Burns, Deborah Ann Lucas traces a life marked by repeated upheavals as her childhood moves give way to adult years shaped by almost every conceivable calamity, and the ongoing presence of horses and art as the only stable parts of...

Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning by Megan Margherio is a personal narrative that moves between past and present, exploring memory, trauma, and healing. It unfolds through fragmented vignettes and conversations between “Little Me,” “Teen Me,” and the author, showing how memory resides in the body...

The Jezebel Tracks by Gardner Landry is a tale of dysfunction, narcissism, addiction, and psychopaths. This may seem to be an unlikely vehicle for humor, but Gardner Landry carries it off with precision and style, while painting a bleak picture of his dysfunctional family. The...

Open Hands follows Keith Thorn as the wound left by the father who abandoned him continues to shape his life well into later adulthood, until the painful distance that forms between Keith and his own children forces him to face the fear that has guided...

The Human Rubric: A Memoir of Life in a Neurotypical World is a remarkable work in which Dr. James P. Manning reflects on his experience of growing up and living in a neurotypical world full of implicit social norms. The author takes readers on an...

Visiting by Polly Walker Blakemore is a series of journal-style, dated entries that chronicle the author’s visits with her aging mother during the final stage of her life. Rather than following a traditional format, the book unfolds through real-time observations of caregiving, decline, and the...

Daffy by Andrea Moriarty is a collection of stories focused on motherhood, especially the experience of raising children on the autism spectrum. Instead of following a single, linear narrative, the book unfolds through a series of personal essays and shared reflections by a close-knit group...

In You Are Not Alone: A Recovery Coach's Journey From Addiction To Advocacy, Amy Sprague describes how a reliance on substances slowly turns into a life governed by fear and physical need. Using her own experiences, she shows how her attempts to quit alone repeatedly...

Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen by Zareen Khan and Umair Khan is a beautifully illustrated cookbook, and also a memoir, travelogue, and celebration of a culture of love and nurturing. Full of nostalgic tributes to childhood, Karachi, Lahore, aunts and grandmothers, it promises and delivers a rich...