Personal Memoir

“DeGaulle’s writing about politics and war is stirring and reflective, poignant and inspiring, passionate and stoic, detailed and contextual.”

"Crystalline and poetic, philosophical and evocative, each short section of such brilliance it demands being savored and read over and over again."

In her latest essay collection, We’re Alone, award-winning Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat has shared eight powerful essays that bring to life Haiti’s history and culture, the Haitian dias

As much as 76-year-old Francine Prose is saying, there always seems to be so much more she is not telling us.

“Between Two Trailers will keep you reading, just as Hillbilly Elegy and The Glass Castle did. The author has quite the story to tell . . .”

“A Life Impossible is a well-written and remarkable book in its honesty. It will be an inspiration to many, . . .”

“An Unfinished Love Story is in large measure a book about loss, both personal and political, but it’s also a celebration of the power of research to reanimate the past and reshape

In The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir, Susan Lieu seeks to understand her Vietnamese immigrant mother, who died when Lieu was 11, and to reconcile her own identity as both part of, and in

“In carefully crafted words, Dubus III both records and enacts his transcendence of the often brutal facts of his upbringing and our time.”

“20,000 phone calls are made to domestic violence hotlines each day in the United States.

One in four women will experience intimate partner violence in her lifetime.”

“Together Vance and Smith debunk the myths that ‘therapy is only for white folks’ and ‘prayer is enough.’”