The Family Outing: A Memoir
By: Jessi Hempel
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of the…
Want to Read $ 14.99"As an adult, I'll come to understand that the price of belonging to a church community, or to any community, is accepting beliefs that you don't hold. Sometimes these beliefs are so incongruous with your own that you have to break away from that community and leave it. But when the community is how you define yourself, second only to your name, that breaking away comes with a steep price. You'll be alone. You must reconstitute yourself. You must search for new communities or build your own."-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
"You'll know, even as I use the word "Evan," that Evan had a name before this. It's a name I won't tell you. To utter it would be to disrespect all the work he has done to find his way to Evan. The more you get to know him, the more you'll see the pronouns, and the names, don't matter at all. Evan teaches me that there is an endless quality to truth; the external details constantly shift as we move closer to the emotional centers of our lives. And you can try to explain it, but it will be no easier than explaining infinity. Not everything can be explained. Some things must be accepted."-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
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1. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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2. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
By: Chrysta Bilton
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more
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3. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
4. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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5. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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6. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
7. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
8. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
9. Uncultured: A Memoir
By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
4.08
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more
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"Daniella,"-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"The body keeps the score."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
10. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
11. Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
By: Casey Parks
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's pa… read more
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- adult
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12. The Family Outing: A Memoir
By: Jessi Hempel
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of the… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- queer
"As an adult, I'll come to understand that the price of belonging to a church community, or to any community, is accepting beliefs that you don't hold. Sometimes these beliefs are so incongruous with …"-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
"You'll know, even as I use the word "Evan," that Evan had a name before this. It's a name I won't tell you. To utter it would be to disrespect all the work he has done to find his way to Evan. The mo…"-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
13. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
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14. To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
By: Sarah Viren
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unfor… read more
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15. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
By: Krista Burton
3.86
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more
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"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
16. Through the Groves: A Memoir
By: Anne Hull
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer… read more
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17. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
By: Casey Tanner
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more
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18. I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
By: Daniel Allen Cox
3.57
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
*LONGLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL* “I spent eighteen years in a group that taugh… read more
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19. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
By: Sara Glass
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more
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20. Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
By: Francesca Royster
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance is a brilliant literary memoir o… read more
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21. Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
By: Amanda Stern
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah … read more
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