Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
10 best books like Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Debra Gwartney): The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses, Manxmouse, The Possibility of Everything, Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, Rockabye: From Wild to Child, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order, Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, Balada Ching-Ching dan Balada Lainnya
The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
| Author | Joy Castro |
| ISBN | 1559707879 |
"The personal account of a young girl who endured abuse and the disturbing effects of religious hypocrisy within one of the most enigmatic sects of Christian fundamentalism." "Joy Castro is adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah's Witness family. As a child, she is constantly told to always...
| Author | Paul Gallico |
| ISBN | 0698102371 |
I was starting to think I was the only person on earth who'd read this book, till I saw J.K. Rowling listing it as one of her childhood favorites. It was definitely one of mine, too!
MANXMOUSE is the story of a mouse, accidentally created by a drunken ceramics maker, who magically comes to life....
| Author | Hope Edelman |
| ISBN | 0345506502 |
From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's search for a cure to her family's escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind.
In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift,...
| Author | Judith Kitchen |
| ISBN | 0393326004 |
In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans...
| Author | Brenda Miller |
| ISBN | 0072512784 |
This is a great book, and if you look for it, try for the earlier edition with the anthology in the back. The most recent edition took the essays out and that makes no sense. Why read about how to write creative nonfiction and not immediately have an example?
At this point I have read most of the book...
Rockabye: From Wild to Child
| Author | Rebecca Woolf |
| ISBN | 1580052320 |
Rockabye is the lively memoir of a spontaneous young city-girl who becomes unexpectedly pregnant. That city-girl is Rebecca Woolf, who at 23, after the "holy shit, I'm pregnant" realization, decides to keep the baby, marry the boyfriend (in Vegas no less), and figure out how to wed her rock n' roll lifestyle...
| Author | Joan Wickersham |
| ISBN | 0151014906 |
When you kill yourself, you kill every memory everyone has of you. You’re saying “I’m gone and you can’t even be sure who it is that’s gone, because you never knew me.â€
Sixteen years ago, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father...
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
| Author | Stephen Kotkin |
| ISBN | 0679642765 |
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection,...
Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers
| Author | Kate Hopper |
| ISBN | 1936740125 |
Use Your Words introduces the art of creative nonfiction to women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. Written by award-winning teacher and writer, Kate Hopper, this book will help women find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write...
Balada Ching-Ching dan Balada Lainnya
Ching-Ching adalah seorang gadis keturunan. Ia selalu dijadikan bulan-bulanan di sekolah. Ayahnya seorang pedagang kwetiau pinggiran. Ini adalah baladanya, juga balada manusia lainnya.
Masing-masing kisah dalam koleksi fiksi pendek ini merupakan sebuah vignet tentang apa artinya...
Yamamoto Kansuke hidup pada zaman Sengoku Jidai; di mana perang saudara dan perebutan wilayah melingkupi wilayah Jepang. Kansuke dipandang sebelah mata karena kakinya yang pincang dan matanya yang buta sebelah. Hingga pada suatu ketika ia bertemu dengan jenderal Itagaki, yang memberinya kesempatan...
Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
| Author | Adrienne Martini |
| ISBN | 0743272730 |
""My family has a grand tradition. After a woman gives birth, she goes mad. I thought that I would be the one to escape.""So begins Adrienne Martini's candid, compelling, and darkly humorous history of her family's and her own experiences with depression and postpartum syndrome.
Illuminating...
Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman s search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck s investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows the profound...
The Swordless Samurai: Pemimpin Legendaris Jepang Abad XVI
copy-editor: Poppy D. Chusfani
Jepang abad ke-16 merupakan zaman pembantaian dan kegelapan. Zaman dimana satu-satunya hukum yang ada adalah hukum pedang.
Dalam tatanan masyarakat hierarkis yang kaku dan melarang keras penyatuan kelas sosial, Hideyoshi lahir sebagai seorang...
| Author | Maria Flook |
| ISBN | 0767903153 |
When Maria Flook's fourteen-year-old sister Karen disappeared from their suburban home, the author was changed forever. My Sister Life maps the story of two castaways from American suburbia who, while apart from each other, live mysteriously parallel lives.
With unrelenting realism...
The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War
| Author | Eiji Yoshikawa |
| ISBN | 0804833184 |
Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The people were abused by the nobility, while the armed Buddhist monks terrorized court and commoner alike. In despair, the Emperor called upon the Heike and Genji clans to quell civil disturbances. Although...
The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu
| Author | Ryōtarō Shiba |
| ISBN | 1568363567 |
In Ryotaro Shiba's account of the life of Japan's last shogun, Perry's arrival off the coast of Japan was merely the spark that ignited the cataclysm in store for the Japanese people and their governments. It came to its real climax with the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the event which forms...
Please Excuse My Daughter: A Memoir
| Author | Julie Klam |
| ISBN | 1594489807 |
A woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance. Julie Klam was raised as the only daughter of a Jewish family in the exclusive WASP stronghold of Bedford, New York....
Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death
| Author | Zoe FitzGerald Carter |
| ISBN | 1439148244 |
• Wrenching, provocative, and surprisingly funny: After twenty years of living with terminal illness, Zoe’s mother decided to end her life—and asked her three daughters for their assistance. For months, the decision drags on as her mother changes her methods and schedule, and the negotiations...
| Author | Janice Erlbaum |
| ISBN | 0812974573 |
And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?
Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful...
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
| ISBN | 1559707917 |
From the Albanian writer who has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize comes a hypnotic narrative of ancient Egypt, a work that is at once a historical novel and an exploration of the horror of untrammeled state power. It is 2600 BC. The Pharaoh Cheops is inclined to forgo the construction of a pyramid...
Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir
| Author | Kaylie Jones |
| ISBN | 0061778702 |
In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones—the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)—tells the poignant story of her relationship with her...
Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
| Author | Alek Wek |
| ISBN | 0061243310 |
Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen, Alek Wek's life has been nothing short of a fantasy. When she's not the featured model in print campaigns for hip companies, or gracing the cover of Elle, she is working the runways of Paris,...
I, Shithead: A Life in Punk
| Author | Joe Keithley |
| ISBN | 1551521482 |
Joey Keithley, aka Joey Shithead, founded legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. in 1978. Punk kings who spread counterculture around the world, they’ve been cited as influences by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Rancid and The Offspring; have toured with The Clash, The Ramones, The Dead Kennedys,...
Somewhere Towards the End
Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs....
