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A Memoir
by Sophia Al-Maria
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by Carolyn Phillips
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsPart memoir of life in Taiwan, part love story―a beautifully told account of China's brilliant cuisines…with recipes.
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsA searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
by Gary Shteyngart
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsA memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world.
by Muriel Mharie Macleod
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsA missing child, a buried tin of coins, and a terrible secret - these lie at the heart of Muriel Macleod's powerful first novel set deep in the back country of early-20th-century Louisiana.
by Joy Harjo
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet.
by Wenguang Huang
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsThree generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsWitty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
by Zoë Ferraris
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsA novel of taut psychological suspense, offering an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of the men and women who live there.
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