Resilience & Reinvention, compiled by Peace Mitchell and Katy Garner, brings together over two dozen memoir shorts about women rebuilding their lives after unexpected changes. In The Crossing, former corporate litigator Amy Laughlin establishes a San Francisco family law practice near her sons’ school, taking...

Restored by Jeremiah Isaiah Cain tells the story of the author’s life, his experience with adoption, and the challenges he faced around mental health. For years, his adoptive family kept his adoption a secret, worried he might feel rejected or unloved if he knew the...

In her memoir Real Estate Rebel, Sybil James Ellis, a young mother in Atlanta, begins rebuilding her life after horrific trauma, an abusive relationship, and the collapse of a marriage leave her raising daughter Jen largely on her own. Employment becomes a necessity, yet commercial...

Reawaken by Dr. Richard Earl Poulin III is a memoir co-written with Ms. Judy Wei that documents a family’s fight for their daughter’s life. Richard Poulin III and his wife, Judy, were living in Asia when their daughter, Rylae-Ann, began to show mysterious symptoms as...

In Rosemary’s Way, Spring Courtright recounts the years in which changes in her mother Rosemary’s memory begin reshaping their close relationship. Repeated questions about an upcoming honeymoon first raise concern, leading to medical appointments as Rosemary thought about the future as she watched her own...

Kaya Gibson’s Released is the story of her extraordinary life, beginning with her early childhood when she was born as Rhonda Baker in Flint, Michigan. Her troubles begin at six when she loses her mother to Hodgkin's disease and survives abuse after that. Diagnosed with...

Rabble Rouser is John L. Skosey's firsthand account of the fight to save the University of Illinois Hospital in 1989, a battle he led as President of the Medical Staff. The trouble begins one week before Christmas 1988, when University President Stanley O. Ikenberry announces...

In Rise and Climb, Ben Barbic looks back on a childhood shaped by his father’s motorcycle world in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where racing trophies made ambition feel almost normal. A wildfire destroys the family home when he is five, then the Loma Prieta earthquake...

Born in Taiwan to a Chinese Muslim diplomat’s family, Fawzia Mai Tung spends her childhood learning how often a place can call a child foreign. Rootless Orchid follows her from early schooldays abroad into a life shaped by embassy postings, changing languages, religious duty, family...

When Amber Black was six years old, she heard the story of Cain and Abel. The story moved her so deeply that she has sought to maintain a close relationship with God ever since. After going through various life experiences, she has come to understand...