LYRICAL, TROUBLING NOVEL follows a girl dreaming of escape from generations of grueling poverty and abuse.

SEARINGLY PERSONAL, YET incisively analytical memoir of ovarian cancer from women’s studies star Susan Gubar.

IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED BIOGRAPHY of the fascinating 19th century American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.

CANDID AND ENGROSSING memoir of a young woman’s decision to leave New York’s Satmar Hasidic Jewish community.

BEAUTIFULLY NUANCED, POETIC essays on art, life, culture, and a black woman’s experience from Ntozake Shange.

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

BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BIO of Pulitzer-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein is hampered by its subject’s reserve.

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

GORGEOUS, CHILLING, POETIC evocation of the lives of early 20th-century Japanese “picture brides” in the US.

NEWEST EDITH PIAF biography will delight fans of the French singer with the breadth and depth of its research.