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 […]
“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
“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 […]
“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 […]
July Read of the Month: “Deeper than African Soil” by Faith Eidse
July 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Deeper than African Soil (Masthof Press, 2023) by Faith Eidse is a most unusual and exceptionally fine memoir. No wonder Florida State University recognized it with the Kingsbury Award, given annually to a graduate student who demonstrates lasting intellectual value in writing, and with the English Department’s Ann Durham Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award. Several chapters […]
“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 […]
Faith Eidse
November 15, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Faith Eidse, PhD, recently signed a Masthof Press publishing contract for her Kingsbury award-winning memoir, Deeper than African Soil, of surviving revolution, disease, and boarding school trauma while growing up among worlds in Congo, Canada and the U.S. She has published five fiction and non-fiction titles, including Florida’s oral history of 2007, Voices of the […]