THOUGHTFUL MEMOIR OF HOMELESSNESS is at its best when revisiting the writer’s terrifyingly chaotic childhood.

A WRITER’S LOVE LETTER to the psychiatrist who saved her life is quirkily touching, if a bit chaotic.

SEARING AND ELOQUENT memoir of child sexual abuse, family dysfunction, and the healing power of nature.

FRANK MEMOIR OF a horrific bout of Crohn’s Disease is most affecting when talking about the author’s children.

HEARTFELT MEMOIR OF food, family, and love in exile (in Tehran, Santa Cruz, and Paris); yummy Persian recipes!

A POET’S MEMOIR of life with severe food allergies is more impressionistic than self-help, but insightful, wry.

A NAIVE AMERICAN TEEN’S days of revolution-chasing in 1980s South America revisited in a rueful, witty memoir.

HEARTBREAKINGLY DIRECT, BEAUTIFUL and wrenching memoir of a 1970s childhood on a pioneering organic farm.

A BELOVED DOG inspires a man to stop drinking and start living. Touching, candid, and surprisingly wry.

GORGEOUS, TERRIFYING, HEART-STOPPING memoir of an artist’s life in flight from a schizophrenic mother’s rages.