New Memoirs So Powerful They’ll Turn Your Life Inside Out
You'll be swept away by these true stories; they'll make you think differently about your own experiences—past and present (plus two more we loved).
Original Content | December 26, 2012
Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox
288 pages
Torn from her adoptive mother and father during the Cultural Revolution of China in the late 1960s, Fu was forced to raise herself and her four-year-old sister while living in a concrete room with no heat, food or adult supervision.' '
Danny Gregory
128 pages
This moving memoir (having borrowed the format of a graphic novel) could be called a picture book for grownups.
Benjamin Anastas
192 pages
In' 'Too Good to Be True, Anastas’ raw, witty, painfully honest voice turns crushing failure into a surprisingly engrossing read.' '
Susannah Cahalan
288 pages
The true story of a 24-year-old journalist's battle against a rare illness that ravages her brain and baffles her doctors.
Richard Russo
256 pages
A memoir the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist wrote after his mom's death.
John Schwartz
304 pages
In this moving memoir, a father writes of his gay son's struggle to accept his own sexuality.
Jeanette Winterson
224 pages
To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her. Best known as the author of such provocative novels as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Sexing the Cherry, the fierce, curious, brilliant British writer is winningly candid in her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Monica Wood
256 pages
An American family grieves for what might have been.
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