Endurance is simply one of the best books I’ve read about what it’s like and what it takes to travel in space especially for long duration flights.
Dale
Endurance is simply one of the best books I’ve read about what it’s like and what it takes to travel in space especially for long duration flights.
Dale
Through exploring her family's archive of letters and other documents, Yamashita creates a powerful dialog between herself and her past, including her family's experience in the WWII Japanese internment camps, how they reacted, how they coped, and how they moved on when they got home. More than just a memoir, this book teaches by example a new kind of relationship you can have with your familial, national, and cultural story. This is an important book.
Josh
The author of How to Raise an Adult tells her own story here, about growing up biracial in mostly-white communities, pursuing a successful academic career, and raising children in a challenging time.
Sarah
The Daily Show comedian Trevor Noah chronicles his childhood growing up under apartheid in South Africa. This memoir is eye-opening, gut-wrenching, and at times hilarious.
Rebecca
This memoir of taking up space in an ambivalent (and often hostile) world is funny, insightful, and satisfying.
Rebecca
Author and French television host Anne Sinclair tells the story of her grandfather, Paul Rosenberg, the celebrated French art dealer, who fled the Nazis during World War II. Part of the legendary Paris art scene, Rosenberg knew intimately Picasso, Matisse, Braque and others and his story paints a fascinating tale of war, betrayal, and ultimately, triumph.
Nathan
Franken is an excellent raconteur in this entertaining but highly informative memoir of his political journey to the U.S. Senate. Providing an account of his excruciatingly drawn out contested run-off election and a sneak peak into the inner workings of government, this funny man shows he is deadly serious about politics, Ted Cruz and Minnesota. Franken for 2020!
Susannah
Poet Patricia Lockwood’s memoir is hilarious and brilliantly weird as Lockwood tells the story of her unique family through her unique perspective. Her prose is like tripping as you walk into the room, grabbing onto a potted plant for balance, but, for once in your life, instead of falling on your face, you’re able to spin around until you’ve reset yourself like a tango dancer dipping nonplussed ficus. After spending time with Lockwood, you feel like you see a different world. This book gives you a new set of eyes.
Josh
In this deeply affecting graphic memoir, Moss lays out the struggles of trying to live as her husband is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. Her simple drawings reveal the pain and anguish her characters don't know how to express in words, making the format a perfect choice for the story.
Marika
