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.

WRY LOOK AT GENETICS researchers’ appeal to our yen to know more about our family histories and health future.

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

CLEAR-EYED, FUNNY, TRENCHANT memoir of a childhood shaped by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, family dysfunction.

A SISTER’S SHORT LIFE, and her suicide at age 21, are explored by a writer in this poetic, touching memoir.

ENGROSSING HIDDEN HISTORY of three 19th-century Frenchwomen whose cases inspired modern neurology, psychology.

HAPLESS, NEUROTIC SLEUTH Teddy Ruzak is back with  another complicated (and less lighthearted than usual) case.

A COMPULSIVE SHOPPER shares her story in this admirably candid memoir. Vivid, if skimpy on larger insights.