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New Biography & Memoir: February 2021 |
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Aftershocks: a memoir
by Nadia Owusu
An award-winning essayist combines literary memoir and cultural history to examine her personal struggles with her mixed-heritage identity and the emotional trauma of her mother’s abandonment and father’s dark secrets.
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Bravey: chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
by Alexi Pappas
The award-winning writer, filmmaker and Olympic athlete describes her childhood embrace of female role models in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide, detailing the hard work, unrelenting resolve and private depression that challenged her own ambitions.
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Dog Flowers : a memoir
by Danielle Geller
An award-winning essayist draws on archival documents in a narrative account that explores how her family’s troubled past and the death of her mother, a homeless alcoholic, reflected the traditions and tragic history of her Navajo heritage.
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Featherhood: a memoir of two fathers and a magpie
by Charlie Gilmour
Forging a bond with a clever magpie, a man struggling with the past and his own uncertainties as a parent discovers that the poet father who abandoned him as a baby had a jackdaw companion.
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Just As I Am: a memoir
by Cicely Tyson
The Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life.
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Kamala's way: an American life
by Dan Morain
A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President charts how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this country’s most effective power players.
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The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: a memoir
by Justine Cowan
Documents the author’s investigation into her late mother’s tragic experiences as an illegitimate orphan who endured an early life of discrimination, physical abuse and harsh labor serving England’s ruling class at infamous Foundling Hospital.
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Walking with Ghosts: a memoir
by Gabriel Byrne
The award-winning stage and screen actor documents his working-class Dublin childhood, his failed ambition to become a priest, the role of street life in shaping his characters and his experiences in Hollywood and on Broadway.
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