Sometimes, looking back, the moments that hurt the most are also the ones we never want to lose. In Fig Trees: A Childhood Lived in the Shadow of Murder by Marnie Ross, the author looks back on growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, with her mother,...

Being a kid can be frightening when the monsters are real people and ideas. In Final Girl: Surviving Church and Childhood, Debbie McNulty looks back on growing up in a household marked by conflict and a religion that taught her to be afraid of the...

In the memoir Flavors I Carry, Emily Wei recounts her life as an American-born Chinese woman whose sense of home is shaped by movement between the United States and Taiwan. At ten, she leaves Houston for Taipei, where school exposes her to social hierarchies she...

Howard L. Dalton’s Four-Footed Sergeant is a beautiful account of a Marine armored unit officer and his fiercely loyal dog, Injector, who served beside him in the intense Pacific theater of World War II. Coming from a Texas farm background and holding a dairy science...

In Forward Only, David Watson recounts growing up in Texas with his grandparents, Grandma and Pawpaw, whose home gave him his first sense of belonging. Losing Pawpaw at twelve changes that home, and adolescence is marked by a habit of leaving whenever he cannot see...

In C.A. Kuhlmey’s Fables of the Deconstruction, Kuhlmey looks back on his spiritual life and the marriage that became inseparable from it. Years spent studying spiritual psychology teach him to listen for messages he calls the “airwaves,” which he believes can carry direction from God...

Foxtail is David Barnett's raw memoir of growing up, as he calls himself, a “humble narcissist” in suburban Austin, Texas. As a toddler, he defecates gleefully on the kitchen floor. As a teenager, he is chased offstage by a cop at his own high school...

In her thought-provoking memoir, From Doctor to Healer, Dr. Erica M. Elliott tells the story of a life characterized by extraordinary grit and personal transformation. After a successful but exhausting career in medicine, her world collapses when she suffers a devastating illness caused by exposure...

Full Circles by Kenneth D. Thompson Sr. tells a deeply moving story that starts in a tiny, struggling home on East 13th Street. This memoir walks us through the author’s childhood, where he dealt with forced school busing to Burnet Junior High and the hurt...

Jerry Morton’s memoir, Finding My Way, traces a remarkable life across the American landscape, from being born into a roving Coast Guard family through the rough Wisconsin subdivisions, Pittsburgh suburbs, and Illinois trailer parks, to college in Kentucky, Army service at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina,...