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Memoirs for March

About Blog Post Mar 15, 2024 by SCLSNJ Staff
Memoirs for March Borrowed by Amy Atzert, collection development librarian Haven’t sunk your teeth into a good memoir lately? No worries. The writers at “BookPage” call the following new and upcoming memoirs quite satisfying. These authors are called literary luminaries who unearthed stories of family, food and grief. Some of our patrons have been anticipating these titles. If this is the first time you are hearing about them don’t be surprised if some of them make your to be read list. “Splinters” by Leslie Jamison
From the best-selling author of “The Recovering” and “The Empathy Exams” comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
“Slow Noodles” by Chantha Nguon
Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house, her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart.
“If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales Of Food, Feminism, and Fury” by Geraldine DeRuiter
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist comes hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.
“Ghost Dogs” by Andre Dubus
This new collection of essays from the best-selling author of “Townie: A Memoir” and “House of Sand and Fog” reflects on his successes, failures and struggles with traditional and modern masculinity.
“Grief Is for People” by Sloane Crosley
How do we live without the ones we love? After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in philosophy and art, hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief.
“The Manicurist’s Daughter” by Susan Lieu
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.
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