“The geography of desire is different for everyone. Desire propels us forward but never lets us know where we will land,” Linda Gambill writes in The Geography of Desire: A Memoir of West Africa. In a clear-eyed, philosophical narrative, she chronicles her challenge as a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa. There she […]
“The Geography of Desire: A Memoir of West Africa” by Linda Gambill
June 30, 2026 by Leave a Comment
“Perfect Unfolding: Seven Years of Life-Changing Solo Adventure, One Year that Broke me Open” by Kristy Halvorsen
May 19, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Suspend all expectations when you open Kristy Halvorsen’s memoir, Perfect Unfolding (Coddiwomple Now, LLC 2026). With raw candor, in fragmented “nomadic mosaic” style like Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, she unveils how she finds herself set loose after her boyfriend leaves. Yet her mom helps her realize her dreams are not crushed but parked in her driveway—if […]
“What Love Can’t Fix: Navigating the Storms of My Husband’s Mental Illness” by Kay L. Harris
May 3, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Tallahassee systems analyst, Kay L. Harris, will move you to tears with her memoir of her husband’s serious mental illness (SMI), What Love Can’t Fix: Navigating the Storms of My Husband’s Mental Illness (2026). Written from the heart of a child raised on Disney dreams in the post-war recovery from the Great Depression, it reveals how life […]
“More than Half Way Home: A Story of Accompaniment in the Shadows of Incarceration” by Dustin Feddon
September 8, 2025 by Leave a Comment
More than Half Way Home: A Story of Accompaniment in the Shadows of Incarceration (2025, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY) by Dustin Feddon is a transforming journey. Father Dustin Feddon’s memoir of accompanying prisoners since 2013 is powerful and necessary at a time when grace and mercy have worn thin. Immigrants, students, and the homeless are […]
“Heart’s Core” by Joann Gardner
October 30, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Prize-winning poet Joann Gardner, PhD, dives deep into Florida’s underground rivers and gathers gems and experiences too complex for simple surface tellings in Heart’s Core (Finishing Line Press 2023). This new poetry book is structured as a journey. Gardner’s book explores concepts of belonging and identity in her far-flung European and U.S. North-South immersions as […]
“Relative Distance” by David Pruitt
November 15, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Faith Eidse A barbaric father forces three sons to travel the long road to normalcy in David Pruitt’s sibling memoir, Relative Distance. The story opens on a moment when all three sons are, separately, homeless. They’ve been rejected by a brutal father and abandoned by a mentally-ill mother. Told in first person, present […]