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“Charlottesville” Is an American Story That Refuses To Let Hate Win

By: Sara Beth West August 13, 2025August 13, 2025

ReviewsCharlottesville: An American Story, Deborah Baker, Graywolf Press, NonfictionLeave a Comment

A look into Deborah Baker’s ‘Charlottesville’ and how past resistance connects to the future’s stand against hate.

A Postal Memoir That’s About So Much More Than Mail

By: Sara Beth West July 9, 2025July 8, 2025

ReviewsMailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home, Nonfiction, Simon & Schuster, Stephen Starring GrantLeave a Comment

A review of Stephen Starring Grant’s wild-ride of a memoir, “Mailman.”

Tenderness, Profanity and Humanity in “Foreverland”

By: Sara Beth West February 11, 2022February 8, 2022

ReviewsEcco, Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky, Memoir, Nonfiction1 Comment

Heather Havrilesky’s “Foreverland,” is just the right blend of tenderness and irreverence.

“This Boy We Made” Grapples with Illness, Racism, and the Intersection of Uncertainty and Hope

By: Sara Beth West January 21, 2022March 7, 2022

ReviewsCatapult Books, Nonfiction, Taylor Harris, This Boy We MadeLeave a Comment

A review of Taylor Harris’s new memoir, “This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown.”