Memoir

June 25, 2021

Identity Adoption & Belonging: A Panel With Jacob Taylor-Mosquera

Listen on VoiceAmerica.com Episode Description Julie Ryan McGue, Author of Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family & Belonging and Jacob Taylor-Mosquera, Author of I […]
June 11, 2021

Twice A Daughter: Julie Ryan McGue’s Memoir on Finding Her Mother

Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers?
June 4, 2021

Brave(ish): How One Woman, Margaret Davis Ghielmetti, Came to Be

At age forty, Margaret quits her sales job to follow her husband’s hotel career to Paris. She’s setting sail on this adventure with a glass half full of bravery, a well-traveled passport, a journal in which she plans to write her novel, and the mentally engrained Davis Family Handbook of Rules to Live By.
April 30, 2021

When the Red Gates Opened: Dori Jones Yang’s Memoir about China

Dori was among the first American correspondents to cover China’s transformation from Maoism to modernization. Her deeply personal memoir follows her rise from rookie reporter to experienced journalist.
April 9, 2021

Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious with Life Amanda Stern

The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern--how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to?
March 26, 2021

SONG OF THE PLAINS: Linda Joy Myers on Family, Secrets, & Silence

Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself.
March 12, 2021

Linda K. Olseon: Gone

Linda Olson and her husband, Dave Hodgens, were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then, while they were vacationing in Germany, a train hit their van, shattering their lives? and Linda’s body.
February 12, 2021

Melanie Chartoff: Odd Woman Out

Go backstage on Broadway, behind the scenes on network television, and inside the complicated psyche of a talented performer struggling to play the role of a complete human.
February 5, 2021

Joanna Eleftheriou: The Way Back

This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust.