I avoid confrontation, and hate change, but the truth is, the times in my life when I’ve had to do really hard things, have made me...

Books were my very first friends. I connected to them in a way that I couldn’t with my immigrant parents, spoiled siblings, or the many...

A brutally honest story by Stephanie Land on how she hid her food and housing insecurity in order to be normal like everyone else. Many...

An amazing, funny, and sobering story of a socially outcast widow in a small Indian village where the men have all the power, and the...

I identify more with Joni Mitchell than Britney Spears but as I read about her new memoir, I agree with the "urgent need for a cultural...

This was one of the best, most beautiful books of any genre that I have read in a very long time. Even though it dealt with painful,...

The Kitchen House" by Kathleen Grissom is a powerful and haunting novel that delves deeply into the theme of trauma, slavery and place....

No. I found that out when I tried to get published by the big publishing houses. That's why I am so proud to be working with She Writes...

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride is an engaging novel about a time where Blacks, whites and Jews coexisted in a small...

I love to read memoir because I learn about lives I could have no way to understand, nor appreciate. This book moved me. The Color of...

It's very hard to know what to say at a time like this. In Jewish tradition, when we visit a mourner, we don't start a conversation. Our...

My heart is too sad, too heavy and too overwhelmed by the damage being caused to innocent people in Israel and Palestine, to write or...

Another must read memoir, by Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair, who turns her pain into words that fuel her escape. "Sinclair thinks about...

I started school at P.S. 77 in the Bronx in the 1960s, a child of struggling immigrant parents who didn’t speak much English. I was...

Alejandra Campoverdi has, at different parts of her life, been: a child on welfare, a White House aide to Barack Obama, a Harvard...

Invictus is a Latin word that means unconquerable or undefeated. The poem is filled with powerful words that express perseverance in...

"The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell" by Robert Dugoni is a heartwarming and emotional novel that explores the themes of redemption and...

I loved this beautiful little book, Foster by Clair Keegan, for its clear-eyed map of a young girl lost in a family mess, and how she...

I loved this book. Claire Keegan's novel, "Small Things Like These," beautifully explored powerful themes of resilience and redemption....

Having a goal to work toward has always been important to me. Before I escaped my childhood home, it was a simple as just getting away....