6 New Memoirs About Embracing Life’s Curveballs

14 Jun 2024

6 New Memoirs About Embracing Life’s Curveballs

Embrace life’s twists with these six captivating memoirs, each a testament to resilience and growth. From unexpected challenges to triumphant victories, these stories inspire us to navigate life’s curveballs with courage and grace. Get ready to be moved, uplifted, and reminded of the extraordinary strength found within the human spirit.

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MARTA (Volume I)

by Dave Rogers

Release Date: April 25 2024

Marta Vol I is the first in a series of memoir about author Dave Rogers and what it was like being a homeless youth on the streets of NYC in the 1980s.

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The Friday Afternoon Club

by Griffin Dunne

Release Date: June 11 2024

Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances.

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Consent: A Memoir

by Jill Ciment

Release Date: June 11 2024

From the acclaimed novelist (“A virtuoso”—Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today’s moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo.

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I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

by Glynnis MacNicol

Release Date: June 11 2024

The pursuit of enjoyment is a political act, both a right and a responsibility. Enjoying yourself—as you are—is not something the world tells you is possible, but it is. Here’s the proof.

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Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice

by David S. Tatel

Release Date: June 11 2024

The “moving, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir” (Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy) by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity.

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Evergreen Lodge: A Memoir

by Tom J. Bross

Release Date: May 16 2024

From the #1 Bestselling Author of Don’t Call Me Jupiter comes Evergreen Lodge: A Memoir, a hilarious and relatable coming-of-age story that will have you laughing out loud and reminiscing about your teenage years.

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