Gwen Suesse’s latest book, Notes from Planet Widow, serves as a powerful antidote to the pain and insecurity women who’ve suffered a loss profoundly understand. Finding themselves suddenly standing on […]
Read MoreA Life in Pieces, made up of thirty short essays, is a wonderful rendering of fragments of a woman’s life in which the author, Jo-Ann Wallace, gains insight, asks questions, […]
Read MoreTwenty years after a halcyon summer spent working in Yellowstone National Park as a young adult, Marcia Hensley is a divorced single mom, restless and wondering where her life is […]
Read MoreNo other word fits Qin Sun Stubis’s latest memoir, Once Our Lives, better than the word odyssey. The index of characters and opening timeline let readers know that they are […]
Read MoreFamilies that adopt give from the heart, even though they have no biological connection to the child. But sometimes they’re reluctant to tell an adopted child about the life she […]
Read More“Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.” ~Michelle Obama In Zita Arocha’s […]
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