Telling Dixie Goodbye by Scott Oglesby opens a window into the author’s turbulent, wandering life as he tries to distance himself from his conservative Southern upbringing. Growing up in a strict household in the shadow of a demanding father, Oglesby has a profound sense of...

In A Body of Evidence: Disbelief, Hidden Disability, and Systemic Harm, S. M. Korhonen opens a bookcase packed with twelve years of reports about her son and begins reconstructing the history obscured by professional conclusions. His hidden disability has been recorded as defiance since infancy,...

Amal Moulik’s Crushed Azaleas follows Moulik from Santiniketan, where an early morning raga with Baba becomes his first memory, into a childhood shaped by India’s diplomatic world. Baba’s work takes the family through postings in Asia and Europe before Rome becomes the place where school...

Scott Fleuter’s Behind the Badge: From Police Chief to Opioid Addict follows Fleuter from a childhood where danger teaches his body to react before thought into a law-enforcement career that makes protection his public role. He starts as a street officer and eventually becomes a...

Larry Setren’s You Never Asked About My Medal follows the author, a Maryland boy from a Jewish family shaped by migration from Lithuania. The question behind the title begins with Uncle Seymour, a decorated veteran whose life teaches Setren that public silence can hide great...

The legal profession seems to attract its fair share of characters. Kevin O'Donnell has seen more than most and entertains readers with his reminiscences in Tales from the Oldest Profession: As Told by a Very Common Lawyer. He reflects on his student days, playing pranks,...

Jacque Gorelick’s Map of a Heart begins on the Crystal Springs Trail in February 2007, where a planned family outing with her husband, Ed, and their newborn son, Elliot, turns into a fight to keep Ed alive. What starts with an armoire errand and a...

In her memoir Piece by Piece, Sheryl Hauk tells the story of how she survived an abusive childhood and built a life centered on music, teaching, family, and creativity. Even though her father no longer has control over her, the effects of the abuse continue...

Lena Atoug’s The Grieving Eye is a memoir about childhood bereavement, family memory, and exile. Atoug grows up in Yugoslavia with a beloved father whose presence fills the house, a mother who is always alert to danger, and a grandmother whose stories keep earlier losses...

Hemangi Sawant’s Denver to Mumbai follows Sawant after thirteen years in America, when she leaves a comfortable life near Denver with her husband, Neeraj, and their ten-year-old son, Ronak, to return to Mumbai. The decision begins with grief after a call from her sister Shyamal...