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Whatever the reason, when novelist Samantha Harvey was suddenly in the grip of chronic insomnia, nothing – not even Sanskrit chanting – seemed to help. Stephanie is also the author of the young adult novel, Sad Perfect, which was inspired by her own daughter’s journey with ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. Tweet. Her cerebral, startlingly clear account of somehow pulling through carries an electric charge and meditates not only on the mystery of sleep but also writing, swimming and dreams.

(Photo by Maddie Meyer - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images), between the United States and the Netherlands at Georgia Dome on September 18, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. Katharine Smyth manages to entangle her personal experience of grief with—wait for it—Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. She made her publishing debut at the age of six, before self-publishing was a thing.

She discusses her personal struggle with self-esteem, the controlling relationship she had with Burt Reynolds, and even her own childhood experience of sexual assault. Grisel is determined to help readers better understand the way addicts think and, in turn, to hopefully find a solution to the epidemic of drug abuse. Having moved to America to pursue her mission of humanizing technology, el Kaliouby recalls in her memoir how she broke ground in her field and decoded her own humanity in the process. Both stood out for their “instinctive hand-eye coordination and physical fearlessness.”, Rapinoe admits to being “late to the party” sexually, unsure of who she was attracted to: “I would look at a boy and have this feeling of I don’t know if he’s cute or not. The memoir, which was seven years in the making, is an honest, occasionally chilling look at the life of one of Hollywood's most timeless actors.

Through grief and anger, Rose’s story is intensely personal as she focuses on what needs to be done in order to move on. In 1980, two hitchhikers heading to a festival were brutally murdered while a third woman survived. Women's World Cup France Final match between The United State of America and The Netherlands at Stade de Lyon on July 07, 2019 in Lyon, France. However, her escape came at a cost, and looking back from middle age, herself a mother to grown children, she assesses the chasmic gap between her generation and that of her parents. Sign up for the latest book news and fun ways to win free books.

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Like the people she meets and profiles in her book, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is an undocumented immigrant, and this book pays tribute and investigates their lives—the hardship, the hard work, the vulgar dismissals, the hope that they carry. We’re sure you’ll find a read to love in our unique list of most anticipated memoirs of 2020. Aided by Julie Schwietert Collazo, founder of Immigrant Families Together, Rosy tells of the excruciating experience they endured and how she fought to save her family.

Privacy Policy, "Deraniyagala's memoir about losing her husband and sons in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami is... possibly one of the most moving books ever written about grief." She is an editor and book reviewer. The remarkable women on this list of unputdownable memoirs have shared the most personal and painful parts of their lives through their writing. Urgent, confessional, intimate, and illuminating, Cathy Park Hong’s story is well worth the read. Small Fry details the complicated relationship between the tech mogul and his eldest daughter, and how Silicon Valley shaped her life.

Author and neuroscientist Judith Grisel takes a no-holds-barred approach to the topic of addiction, tackling the subject through a mix of science, her own experiences, and a little bit of humor.

Journalist Sophie Heawood was living the dream in LA when she became pregnant by accident in her mid-thirties. We do not share your information with partners or third parties. She opens up about her battle with bipolar disorder and her recovery from sexual addiction—proving that even some of the greatest divas have to overcome a lot. This is a portrait of America—unfiltered, undocumented, moving and challenging. (Photo by Maddie Meyer - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images). The pair began playing soccer at age 6 for a local boys’ team before joining an all-girls team created by their father. They have worked as sex workers, lived in psychiatric institutions and hiked the Pacific Crest Trail alone. Take Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road, #2 among the Best Books of the Year So Far, which investigates a family ravaged by schizophrenia, or the memoir of Phuc Tran, who found solace in literature as a Vietnamese immigrant. It’s taken decades for Adrienne Brodeur to fully understand the affair’s calamitous fallout, and her memoir shimmers with hard-earned emotional truths. In simple and direct language, Boylan describes an extraordinary metamorphosis." She links her personal experiences to the systemic problems they stemmed from, recalls the forces she found liberating – from books to the LGBTQ+ community – and reflects on how she found her voice as a feminist and writer. Whoever may have told you that non-fiction is boring was either a) reading the wrong books, or b) just plain wrong. She lives in Brooklyn.

(Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images), EY & Citi On The Importance Of Resilience And Innovation, Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change. This is the story of that struggle. Through heartbreaking personal stories, McBride sheds light on the constant struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion. Learn more about our use of cookies: Cookie Policy. In the ‘70s, when author Alia Volz was tucked into her stroller, her mother ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that delivered more than 10,000 marijuana edibles to customers each month.

These stories are motivating, funny, powerful, sad, and evocative. This was one of the books that lit our team up the most—we couldn’t stop talking about Kolker’s storytelling that reads like fiction and the empathy he conjured for this American family overcome by schizophrenia. In her 240-page memoir co-written by New York Times NYT journalist, Emma Brockes, Rapinoe addresses her own white privilege in the book's prologue when talking about why she … This is one that I have been looking forward to for a long time. *Disclosure: The links above are affiliate links.

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Kerman pleads guilty and is sentenced to 15 months in a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut." Inspiring, addictive and occasionally gasp-worthy – to mark the publication of Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing, we arrange the best Tinseltown memoirs in order of excellence These picks are editorially selected, but if you purchase, She Reads may get something in return. --, "Alcohol was the fuel of choice during Hepola's early years as a writer, but after too many nights spent falling down staircases, sleeping with men she didn't remember the next day, and narrowly surviving countless other near disasters, she fought her way clear of addiction and dared to face life without a drink in hand." Now it's up to Kan herself to reach for the dreams society told her she could never achieve. Sigh, Gone is an important story of immigration, America, and the disconnect between generations and cultures. Her testament to that time is moving and beautiful. Khar openly and honestly shares her story about her years-long addiction to heroin. The female African-American emergency-room physician – a profession that is largely male and white – writes a poignant reflection on self-healing, predominantly discovered via her patients.

In so doing she became the de facto voice of the disaster—ferrying messages of safety, directing first responders, and providing a calm and steady voice to ward off the further chaos of a broken city. These real-life memoirs take the travel genre to a new level, telling stories of exploration, hardship, bravery, and the unstoppable human spirit. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images). I am a freelance journalist from England covering women's soccer around the world since 2011.

Even so, she struggled to rationalize the life she'd been given with the life she'd run away from. Emma Copley Eisenberg has spent years examining the murders and how they affected not only those involved but a generation as a whole. "She's a pretty cool customer," one hospital worker says of her, and, certainly, coolness was always part of the addictive appeal of Didion's writing. You’re the best. Why, on this overburdened planet of ours, would anyone choose to have a fifth child?

It's a painful story, but told with pure hilarity. 7 Biographies About Women Worth an All-Nighter, What We're Reading: A Book About…Reading More Books, What We're Reading: A Lustful, Literary Memoir, The Best Fiction Books by Women This Year, Best New Books to Cozy Up With Come Autumn. --, "Didion's husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack, just after they had returned from the hospital where their only child, Quintana, was lying in a coma.

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