We review some terrific memoirs this week: Christian Cooper takes "seemingly disparate topics... and skillfully fits them together" in Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World; journalist Connie Wang's nine "effervescent" travel-based essays in Oh My Mother! upturn stereotypes of suffering immigrants and American dreamers; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull's "vivid memoir," Through the Groves, re-creates a 1960s childhood among Florida's citrus trees. And in The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish, debut author/illustrator Chloe Savage imagines a delightful marine adventure featuring female scientist Dr. Morley. Plus so many more!
In The Writer's Life, Stephen Buoro discusses his debut, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, plus the book that "changed the way I saw the world."