Tag: november-december 2025
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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay I’ve a portrait of my Appalachian great-grandmother on my desk. Her lengthy, graying hair is pulled again right into a bun. She wears glasses and a plaid blazer, additionally, a smirk. For years, I’ve puzzled what was behind that grin, tucked in these chiseled cheekbones, the identical ones that fashioned mine.…
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Reviewed by Layla Khoury-Hanold In Famished: On Meals, Intercourse, and Rising Up as a Good Woman (Eerdmans; December 2025), writer Anna Rollins tees up one of the crucial highly effective reader takeaways within the guide’s preface: “When ladies labored to heal from physique disgrace, their relationship to faith was intricately concerned.” Rollins blends private narrative with…
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Reviewed by Sarah Boon In The River’s Daughter: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau; June 2025), Bridget Crocker was born right into a dysfunctional household. Her mom left her father when Bridget was 4 years previous, as he beat her in entrance of Bridget. Her mother moved on to construct a life with a quiet, first…
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Reviewed by Amy Roost Because the title of On the Nook of Previous and Future: A Assortment of Life Tales (Bison Books; October 2025) suggests, Pamela Joern’s three-part memoir in essays is anxious with intersections, particularly the intersections of time and place, reminiscence and fact, and life and artwork. The opening chapter, “On the lookout…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay Like Shigeko Ito, I’m no stranger to childhood trauma. Like Shigeko Ito, I guess you aren’t, both. It appears inescapable, this idea of a ‘excellent childhood.’ Does anybody have such a factor? In her debut memoir, The Pond Past the Forest: Reflecions on Childhood Trauma and Motherhood (She Writes Press; October…
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Interviewed by Hillary Moses Mohaupt Most Individuals have eaten a taco or may, on the very least, determine one on a menu. However not everybody may outline the important thing traits of a taco or hint its journey from its origins to tables around the globe. That’s the place Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado’s Taco (2025),…
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After an hour of tossing and delivering mattress, I sit up and attain for the sunshine. Close by, I preserve a pen, sheet of paper and pocket book, which I acquire only for nights like this one. Typically, when I attempt to loosen up, traumatic recollections resurface, however I’ve discovered that expressing pent-up emotions by…
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You by no means know when the breakthrough will come. For ages, I struggled with arm balances — the mechanics defy physics. How may I tuck knees behind elbows, carry ft off the ground, and rely solely on palms and fingers to stop a face-plant? Insanity! However every week, a trainer flirted with that chance.…
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By December we questioned if all of the hype was true. Everybody mentioned Mrs. Harper was a strapper, however we hadn’t but witnessed her in motion. Oh we heard all of the tales. Smalltown legends of different children, different years. The child who obtained the strap as a result of he threw Kathy Tuik’s shoe…
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Reviewed by Diane Gottlieb Fortunately, nobody has to journey far to search out books about grief, one of the crucial well-traversed matters in literature. There are numerous poetry collections, fiction and memoirs that heart grief, and self-help books about lack of family members—mother and father, spouses, kids. Books about dropping a pet might even be…