A powerful and wrenchingly intimate memoir about the formidable challenge of raising a family separated by prison walls and how we can fight back against a broken byzantine system.Keeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician,...
Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless...
Author: Volker Leppin
Publisher: Yale University Press
An award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the myths One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and quickly canonized after his death. He has inspired generations of Christians...
Love and Need: The Life of Robert...
Author: Adam Plunkett
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost's life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.. By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation's bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us on wooded...
Bibliophobia: A Memoir
Author: Sarah Chihaya
Publisher: Random House
"A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life." - Hua Hsu, author of Stay True"A must for the obsessive reader." - Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The Idiot. Books can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate,...
The White Peril: A Family Memoir
Author: Omo Moses
Publisher: Beacon Press
From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family. In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons...
A Matter of Complexion: The Life...
Author: Tess Chakkalakal
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
A biography of Charles Chesnutt, one of the first American authors to write for both Black and white readers.In A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland to parents who were considered...
Black Panther Woman: The Political...
Author: Mary Frances Phillips
Publisher: NYU Press
The first biography of Ericka Huggins, a queer Black woman who brought spiritual self-care practices to the Black Panther Party.. In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as well as a mother, widow, educator,...
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir
Author: Freda Epum
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Merging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American's search for home and belonging on her own terms.In The Gloomy Girl Variety Show, Freda Epum explores the opposing forces of her "no-place, no-where" identity as a Nigerian American daughter, diasporically...
Bad Naturalist: One Woman's...
Author: Paula Whyman
Publisher: Timber Press
With humor, humility, and awe, one woman attempts to restore 200 acres of farmland long gone-to-seed in the Blue Ridge Mountains, facing her own limitations while getting to know a breathtaking corner of the natural world. When Paula Whyman first climbs a peak in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of a home...
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare...
Author: Rebecca Romney
Publisher: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure that introduces readers to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen - and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves.. Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane...
