Sentences with phrase «powerful memoir»
A "powerful memoir" refers to a book written by someone about their own life experiences. It is described as "powerful" because it deeply impacts and moves the readers, providing profound insights into the author's personal journey and the emotions they went through. Full definition
From the author of The Prisoner's Wife, a poetic, passionate, and powerful memoir about the hard realities of single motherhood.
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The fact that 43 - year - old Byars is giving a phone interview is nothing short of a miracle, given that he nearly died not once, but twice — in a pair of events that he chronicles in the intensely powerful memoir Will & I. Not much has been easy since, he writes: «Actions as simple as brushing my teeth, shaving and showering all begin with the question «How am I going to do this?»»
Turner's powerful memoir describes one pivotal summer in which a young girl copes with a horrible sexual attack and finds the strength to tell her story and begin to heal.
I fell in love with Dani's work when I read Devotion, a powerful memoir about being a mom, writer, and spiritual seeker.
- Barnes and Noble «Irritable Hearts is a powerful memoir about a young journalist's painful battle with PTSD and her arduous road to recovery.
Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau • $ 16 • ISBN 9780812984965 In a powerful memoir that was included on several best books of the year lists in 2014, the Harvard Law grad and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative recounts his efforts to represent the poor and wrongly condemned, focusing on the disturbing case of a young black man sentenced to death for the murder of a white woman in Monroeville, Alabama (Harper Lee's hometown).
In this powerful memoir, a young woman loses her husband twenty years after her own mother was widowed, and overcomes two generations of tragedy to discover that both hope and love endure.
Hinton tells his story in his harrowing, powerful memoir, The Sun Does Shine.
Fire Shut Up in My Bones By Charles M. Blow Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544570115 In a powerful memoir, the New York Times columnist recalls the poverty and abuse of his Louisiana childhood and reveals the echoes of his tramautic past in a long, painful search for his personal and sexual identity.
Pulitzer Prize - winning poet Pardlo explores fatherhood, addiction and the meaning of African - American masculinity through the lens of his own family in this powerful memoir.
Girl in the Woods By Aspen Matis Morrow • $ 15.99 • ISBN 9780062291073 Earning comparisons to Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this powerful memoir follows a young woman attempting to walk away her emotional anguish after suffering a sexual assault.
Other options include Reinaldo Arenas's powerful memoir, «Before Night Falls» or Rachel Kushner's «Telex from Cuba» set in the American community in Cuba in the halcyon days before Castro's revolution.
In this powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change, the bestselling author and former NBC anchorman chronicles a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on his long, lucky life.