Book Review: Leslie Handler’s Rats, Mice, and Other Things You Can’t Take to the Bank
A memoir of Handler’s life and views expressed in a standalone collection of hilarious essays that tell it like it is from Mom’s point-of-view.
Genre: memoir
Book Review: Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle
An inside look at a family which is deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant with a brilliant father who drinks too much and a free spirited mother too self-absorbed to notice her kids.
Book Review: Anthony Russell’s Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle
Anthony Russell takes us inside his childhood growing up at Leeds Castle, with luxury and opulence few can imagine, and how he found his way in a changing society.
Book Review: Patricia Polacco’s The Keeping Quilt
Patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family, and the memory quilt created from old familyt clothes, including Anna, Uncle Vladimir, Aunt Havalah , and Aunt Natasha.
Book Review: Patricia Polacco’s Chicken Sunday
Love will find a way for a young Russian American girl and her African American brothers to buy their gramma Eula an Easter hat…in just the right way.
Book Review: Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers
Another riotous, moving, and entirely unique story of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s attempt to tackle the next phase of life with his partner… on a goat farm in upstate New York.
Book Review: Kathleen Langdon-Haven McInerney’s Dear Nell: The true story of the Haven Sisters
Feel the effects of the Civil War on families, livelihoods, and the identity of the South through the letters of two sisters: Nell, married to a plantation owner, and Fanny who stayed in the North.