Rosemary, Now and Then by Christina Larson is a moving and honest memoir about caring for a mother with dementia. The narrative follows Rosemary, a lively and creative woman, as she faces the challenges of multiple strokes and memory loss. Her daughter, Chris, a retired...

Sandra Tow’s memoir, Scattered, Smothered, and Covered, offers an intimate exploration of her complex relationship with her mother, against a working-class Southern and blue-collar upbringing in the 1970s and 80s. The book traces Tow’s journey from a child who idolized her single mother to an...

Commi Kitchen by Cole Crocker is a raw, funny, and profoundly human novel about grief, ambition, and the unpredictable theater of the culinary world. Brand is a young chef with vision, drive, and wounds he has not yet begun to name. As he throws himself...

A Top Gun Life: Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot by Roy Calvin Moore is more than just a memoir of a fighter pilot for the U.S. Air Force; it is an exposition of life in middle-class America in the twentieth century. Born in the Great...

No Greater Honor: Lessons From My Life as a Soldier by N. Lee S. Price is a memoir that follows Price as she shares her experiences during her 38 years of service in the U.S. Army. She wanted to be a police officer but didn't...

When her father's second wife called to inform Lori L. Lee that he had passed away, supposedly from a heart attack, Lori took the news as confirmation that a difficult chapter in her life was coming to an end. As she reflects on her relationship...

Twenty Years of Unraveling by Ted Neill is a powerful and unsettling follow-up to his 2016 memoir, Two Years of Wonder. In this deeply personal and investigative narrative, Neill reconnects with young adults who were once children living in an orphanage for HIV-positive youth in...

Arta Lucescu-Boutcher’s memoir Loss, Voyage, and Rebirth chronicles her life from childhood in Romania through immigration to France and the United States, highlighting experiences of family, cultural adaptation, education, and identity. Raised by her mother, Mamica, and stepfather, Victor, under the Ceaușescu regime, she faced...

A Tree with My Name on It: Finding a Way Home by Victress Hitchcock is a tender and soul-searching memoir about what it means to rebuild yourself when everything you counted on disappears. After she relocates to a remote Colorado ranch with her husband, life...

Recalibrating Gravity by Mary Keating is written in verses that capture poignant stories of her life. The author survived a car accident at age fifteen, which left her paraplegic. She begins the story with memories of sitting in the church pew with her family. The...