Suleika Jaouad found her life interrupted when she was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 22. This memoir is her brutal coming-of-age: a cancer battle, a survival tale, a story about family and friendship. Mostly, though, it is about all of the ways love and human connection can heal us.
Ramen is a bit of an obsession in my family, so much so that if a wish-granting food fairy could magically whisk us off to any restaurant in the U.S. of our choosing, chef David Chang’s Momofuku Noodle Bar might just top the list. In his recently-published memoir, Eat a Peach, David Chang reveals the…
Whenever someone learns that I work in a library, this question inevitably follows: what’s your favorite book? It’s like Sophie’s Choice, impossible to answer. So when it came time for me to review a recently published memoir, I couldn’t pick just one. Following are a few of my favorites from this year. Written by four…
While many of us can probably recall a heart-stopping moment when we narrowly averted a serious injury or even death – seventeen times? That is about sixteen more close calls than any one person should have to endure. And yet, that is how many times Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell has dodged the bullet. Best known…
Mara Wilson, or you may know her as the little girl in Mrs. Doubtfire, Susan in the Miracle on 34th Street re-make, or Matilda. Now Mara Wilson is grown up, graduated from college, a playwright and author of the new book Where Am I Now? Where Am I Now? is Wilson’s memoir of her time…
