The Ugly Cry
By: Danielle Henderson
4.26
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who wanted to start a new family with her drug-addicted, abu…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were."-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were."-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"Danielle Elizabeth Henderson! Get your ass over here!' she shouted. Grandma always used my full name when she was angry. None of the shoppers around her turned a head or lifted a finger to help; in the 1980s, department stores were full of people shouting the names of temporarily lost children, a cacophony of negligent parenting always ringing out like the last act of an opera."-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"Danielle Elizabeth Henderson! Get your ass over here!' she shouted. Grandma always used my full name when she was angry. None of the shoppers around her turned a head or lifted a finger to help; in the 1980s, department stores were full of people shouting the names of temporarily lost children, a cacophony of negligent parenting always ringing out like the last act of an opera."-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
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1. Ghostbread
By: Sonja Livingston
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
“When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through.” Ghostbread makes real for us th… read more
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2. Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling
By: Rosie Pérez
4.01
Format: 0 pages,
From the New Co-host of the View, Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez's never-before-told story of … read more
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3. 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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4. Somebody's Daughter
By: Ashley C. Ford
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: … read more
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"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm j…"-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
5. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
6. Everything Is Fine
By: Vince Granata
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more
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"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine
7. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
8. 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
9. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
By: Michelle Horton
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more
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10. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
By: Lara Love Hardin
4.46
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more
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11. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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12. Never Simple
By: Liz Scheier
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love betwee… read more
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- biography
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"Clearly I hadn't actually won the Shitty Family Olympics, just placed in the qualifiers. It could've been worse."-Liz Scheier, Never Simple
"Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted."-Liz Scheier, Never Simple
13. The Ugly Cry
By: Danielle Henderson
4.26
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who wanted to start a new family with her drug-addicted, abu… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
"Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were."-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"Danielle Elizabeth Henderson! Get your ass over here!' she shouted. Grandma always used my full name when she was angry. None of the shoppers around her turned a head or lifted a finger to help; in t…"-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"My grandparents got creative to make space for three kids in their two-bedroom home. They took one of the bedrooms, my mom and aunt shared the other, and my uncle Bobby slept on the screened-in porch…"-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
14. American Daughter
By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale
4.20
Format: 288 pages, ebook
For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more
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15. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #3)
By: Tom J. Bross
4.62
Format: 387 pages, ebook
Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more
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16. Kin
By: Shawna Kay Rodenberg
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrep… read more
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17. What We Carry: A Memoir
By: Maya Shanbhag Lang
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In caring for her aging mother and her own young daughter, writer Maya Shanbhag Lang--"a new voice … read more
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18. The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness
By: Elle Johnson
3.48
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"The Officer’s Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled ti… read more
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19. The Lockhart Women
By: Mary Camarillo
4.10
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Brenda Lockhart’s family has been living well beyond their means for too long when Brenda’s husband… read more
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20. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth
By: Minu Cash
4.53
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more
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"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth
21. The People In My House
By: Libby Henry
4.03
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Libby’s father is old school and didn't want another family. Libby’s mother lives vicariously throu… read more
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