1. Oh the Hell of It All: A Memoir by Pat Montandon | Goodreads
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Thrust into the media spotlight with her son Sean Wilse…
2. The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
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An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the car
3. 'Fairyland': Memoir of a girl raised in San Francisco's gay community | LAist
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Alysia Abbott chronicles what it was like growing up in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS crisis in her new book, "Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father."
4. The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
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The Poet and the Silk Girl is a compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice—and how their story echoes across generations.
5. Orphan Bachelors - Grove Atlantic
Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their ...
CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR NONFICTION From the bestselling and award-winning author of the novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is...
6. Out of Sight! by Barbara Sanford Rahder | The FriesenPress Bookstore
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What was it like to be in the midst of the counterculture movement as a white teen girl with a critical eye? Out of Sight! is Barbara Sanford Rahder’s memoir, a coming-of-age story set in the iconic time and place of 1960s San Francisco. At sixteen,...
7. HERstory 2023: Memoir This! Bad Ass Women Spill It
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HERstory 2023: Memoir This! Bad Ass Women Spill It by SFPL_ReadersAdvisory - a staff-created list : The 2023 Women’s History Theme is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.” One book in this list, "Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop," perfectly honors this theme through the genre of music history. For the remainder of the titles in this list, I’ve taken the liberty to retitle the theme “Celebrating Women Who Tell THEIR OWN RAW Stories.” That is, memoirs with an edge. From punk rock to disability activism to queer dominatrix, to rigorous healing of the spirit, you'll hear a rainbow of women's resilient voices. All SFPL titles are available in multiple formats such as print, ebook, and audiobook.
8. One Reason to Live: A Memoir About Surviving Trauma
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See AlsoMostly Sunny | Rotten TomatoesOne Reason to Live is a beautiful memoir about survival, hope, and learning to trust yourself again after experiencing incredible trauma and tragedy. So many
9. San Francisco Pilgrimage: Memoir of a Lifelong Love Affair with My City: My
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10. Mothers and Girls: A Fake Memoir | Creative Capital
Mothers and Girls is a novel or “fake memoir” narrated by the daughter ... San Francisco, CA. Meng Jin is a novelist whose stories explore the ways in ...
Creative Capital is a nonprofit, grantmaking organization with the mission to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work, to amplify the impact of their work, and to foster sustainable artistic careers.
11. Sara Glass - Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir | SF/Arts
Book Passage claimed the title of the “Bay Area's Liveliest Bookstore” years ago as it was hosting more than 800 author events, classes, conferences, children's ...
Kissing Girls on Shabbat is not only a love letter to Sara Glass’s children, herself, and her family—it is an unflinching window into the world of ultra-conservative Orthodox Jewish communities and an inspiring celebration of learning to love yourself.
12. Taking refuge in rage: 'Girl, Interrupted,' 30 years later - The Tufts Daily
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“Somebody asked me a long time ago: ‘From what emotion did you write this book?’, and I said, ‘rage,’” Susanna Kaysen shared about her 1993 memoir, “Girl, Interrupted.” To a room of curious listeners, each clutching their own copy of the book, this insight struck a chord. In a time when mental health wasn’t talked about openly, Kaysen wrote on her experience authentically and powerfully. Her words continue to captivate readers, and bookstores continue to shelve this literary classic. If art is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed, Kaysen has succeeded.
13. Raising Girls in Bohemia A Memoir in Essays by Richard Katrovas
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In the remarkable, personal, and political essays of RAISING GIRLS IN BOHEMIA: MEDITATIONS OF AN AMERICAN FATHER, writer and poet Richard Katrovas (Mystic Pig, Prague Winter), chronicles his life as a father of three Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves in depth into a range of intricately-related, yet far-flung subjects including fine dining, sexual epithets, gender identity, racism, poetry, and education, tracing “the contours of his ignorance” about all things. Through the course of these fine essays, Katrovas unveils what it means to be an American and to be a man, and especially what it means to be a father of three daughters, born in Prague, in what we can only hope is the twilight of patriarchy. As award-winning author Stuart Dybek (I Sailed with Magellen), notes, ”Richard Katrovas vividly conveys the complexity of the relationship between a father and his bilingual daughters who are being raised as citizens of two very different cultures. The freshly written, deeply felt essays in Raising Girls in Bohemia, were fascinating when first published individually in literary magazines. But to read these essays together adds a welcome sense of an overarching narrative, and dials the level of complexity higher still. A vital, one-of-a-kind book.”
14. Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood | The Well~Read Moose
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By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . . To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five. One day they were in Australia, the next in South Africa, the pattern repeating as they crossed continents, changed identities, and erased their pasts. What Diamond didn’t yet know was that she was born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that would eventually catch up to all of them. By the time she was in her teens, Diamond had lived dozens of lives and lies, but as she grew older, love and trust turned to fear and violence, and her family—the only people she had in the world—began to unravel. She started to realize that her life itself might be a big con, and the people she loved, the most dangerous of all. With no way out and her identity burned so often that she had no proof she even existed, all that was left was a girl from nowhere. Surviving would require her to escape, and to do so Diamond would have to unlearn all the rules she grew up with. Wild, heartbreaking, and often unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true story of self-...
