Browse Books in Personal Memoirs

Birth on the Land
Memories of Inuit Elders and Traditional Midwives

On the Edge of Being
An Afghan Woman's Journey

Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas
Essays

Bygone Days

Mi madre, mi maestra
Memorias del Sáhara Occidental

My Mother, My Teacher
A Memoir from Western Sahara

Half-Light
Westbound on a Hot Planet

One Second at a Time
My Story of Pain and Reclamation

Halfway Home
Thoughts from Midlife

More Richly in Earth
A Poet's Search for Mary MacLeod

More Richly in Earth
A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod

The Last Logging Show
A Forestry Family at the End of an Era

The Road to Appledore
Or How I Went Back to the Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the First Place

Window Shopping for God
A Comedian’s Search for Meaning

Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes
Essays on Motherhood

Sticky, Sexy, Sad
Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps

Giaci and Me
A Mother's Journey of Loving and Raising an Autistic Child

Past the End of the Road
A North Island Boyhood

Standing at the Back Door of Happiness
And How I Unlocked It

Brown Boy
A Memoir

On Comics and Grief

Rough Magic
Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

Counting Bones
Anatomy of Love Lost and Found

Boxing the Compass
A Life of Seafaring, Music, and Pilgrimage