by Sue Repko | Jun 21, 2022 | Memoirs
In this compact and haunting memoir, Gregory Orr, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, shares the immediate and long-term impact of his unintentional shooting of a younger brother, when he himself was just 12 years old, while hunting with their father.... by Sue Repko | Jun 15, 2022 | Memoirs
This memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey takes readers on a tender, inquisitive, and insightful journey into her relationship with her Black mother, who was murdered in Atlanta by an abusive ex-husband/stepfather when... 
by Sue Repko | Sep 18, 2019 | Memoirs, Other Nonfiction
Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World by Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, is THE groundbreaking, grassroots guide for gun violence prevention advocates we’ve... 
by admin | May 15, 2019 | Memoirs
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham After the author’s father completes suicide by gun, she uses the form of an index as a way to bring some order to all of the confusing and confounding aftershocks. How can she make... 
by admin | May 15, 2019 | Memoirs
The Blessing by Gregory Orr In this compact and haunting memoir, this longtime professor of English at the University of Virginia shares the impact of his unintentional shooting of a younger brother, when he himself was just 12 years old, while hunting with his father...