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Memoir “Virtual Insanity” Provides a Minds-Eye View of Schizophrenia

Lara McKenzie has known terror and trauma most of us will never experience in our lifetimes. She has been stalked by wealthy and powerful men. Monitored by various intelligence agencies. Unwittingly microchipped. Tortured with electromagnetic weaponry. Her mind has been invaded incessantly by interrogators and military commanders. She’s been tricked…

Cynthia ConradJanuary 13, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Honest Memoir Details the Struggles of Growing Up as an LGBTQ+ Member in the 70s

Gay, ambitious and independent, Michael Caputo tells his story in no-nonsense prose in his new memoir, Chameleon, recounting a complicated childhood that would have broken the spirit of most kids. Raised by an argumentative single mother, sexually abused by an uncle and bullied by neighborhood thugs, Caputo got tough instead. …

Sherri DaleyNovember 10, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Mythological Goddess and Champion of Women’s Rights Walk Side by Side in “The Light of Ishtar”

Elza Maalouf was destined to change the world. From the very start, as she grew in her mother’s womb, the debate over her existence, whether she’d be her family’s fourth boy or the women’s long-awaited girl, was like “a tug of war between the patriarchal gods and matriarchal goddesses disputing…

Chelsea CicconeOctober 8, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Living in Color” Paints Love as the Best Treatment in One Couple’s Cancer Journey

If ever there was a story about a couple living in the moment in an inner world of uncertainty and anguish, making the best of it, and coming as close to a perfect ending as can be imagined, it’s Living in Color: A Love Story, in Sickness and in Health (createSpace),…

Jim AlkonOctober 11, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Flight of the Beautiful Lie” Soars With the Resiliency of a Transgender Woman-of-Color

When I embarked on reading the memoir Flight of the Beautiful Lie, I knew that it was about a transgender woman, Jasmine Christine Ford, and her transition, but I really had no idea of the scope of her story. Born James Otis Ford (nicknamed Jof) into poverty and violence, Jasmine’s…

Barbara WilkovOctober 13, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes” May Be Less Painful With the Support of This Book

“I’m furious with Mother. She stole my childhood … I feel pierced because she played on my fears. I trusted what she did was best for me, but she met her own needs, not mine. She took advantage of a scared, defenseless little boy.” That is one of the hundreds…

Jim AlkonSeptember 14, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

Samuel Antek — first violinist with the famed NBC Symphony Orchestra for 17 years — captures what it was like to perform under Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who many consider to be the greatest conductor of the mid-20th century. In This Was Toscanini, his musical memoir published in 1963, Antek shared…

K.L. RomoAugust 17, 2021

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“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

“He might as well have told her that he was planning to jump off a bridge in the hope of bouncing the cancer out of his body.” About 650,000 cancer patients receive chemotherapy in an outpatient oncology clinic every year in the U.S. Rodney Stamps was not going to be…

Jim AlkonAugust 11, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Impactful Memoir “Triple Jeopardy” Proves Dr. Rita Ali Is a Fighter

I remember the exact words Dr. Rita Ali said to me on the phone the first time we discussed her book Triple Jeopardy: Three Strikes But Not Out (Words Matter Publishing): “I was incarcerated three times, but I didn’t do it.” The “it” was a 27-count conviction in 2004 on…

Jim AlkonApril 12, 2021

Nonfiction Save the World

Malaka Gharib and the Elusive American Dream

Malaka Gharib, the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant and a Filipino immigrant, spent her formative years carving out an identity for herself between her Filipino-American community at home and her father’s Egyptian family in Cairo. In her graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream (Clarkson Potter), she notes the cultural…

Jeff DaughertyApril 26, 2019

Nonfiction Save the World

Office Worker Turned Travel Junkie in “Ten Years a Nomad”

Matthew Kepnes's parents were taken aback when told their son was going to travel around the world for a year. It didn't match their vision for him: 9-to-5 job, a climb up the corporate ladder, eating with the same friends at the same places. But it was a year -…

Lee PelletierJuly 22, 2019

Nonfiction

“American Oz” Pulls the Curtain on Carnival Life to Show Us Ourselves

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/american-oz-michael-sean-comerford2.jpg “Immersion journalism” describes journalists who go all-in. That means a 24/7 experience with the subject, keeping only the most tenuous ties with your prior life. You can’t get more immersive than the assignment that Michael Sean Comerford gave himself to write American Oz. He left his family in the Chicago…

Dennis HetzelNovember 6, 2020

Nonfiction

The Bella Twins Prove “Incomparable” in Their New Memoir

Nikki and Brie Bella have always competed, but because the rest of the world treated them as identical and interchangeable, they decided to do something about it. Their new memoir, Incomparable (Gallery Books), shares the whole story of these WWE Hall of Famers and E! Total Bellas stars, starting with their early years,…

BookTribMay 5, 2020

Nonfiction

“The Room Where It Happened:” A Comprehensive Account of the Trump Administration

It wouldn’t be a stretch to expect any Broadway aficionado to be able to whistle the tune, “The Room Where It Happens,” from the ever-so-popular, long-running show Hamilton. The song describes the Compromise of 1790 between Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. “Compromise” is not a word readers likely…

Jim AlkonJune 18, 2020

Nonfiction

A Woman’s Quest to Learn About What Her Family “Abandoned in Berlin”

When Hilda Stein stood in front of her mother’s childhood home in Berlin, she felt a tug of nostalgia and longing. The building was graceful and elegant, dominating the neighborhood of ordinary post-war structures. “If buildings could speak,” she mused, “what stories this one could tell.” Abandoned in Berlin by…

Sherri DaleyApril 15, 2020

Nonfiction

A Mother-Daughter Bond of Lies and Secrets in “Wild Game”

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Adrienne Brodeur is a story of a mother’s love, what not to do and the long journey to recover from the damage done. Rennie’s mom, Malabar, and her second husband, Charles, spend a lot of time with friends…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 13, 2020

Memoir “Virtual Insanity” Provides a Minds-Eye View of Schizophrenia

Honest Memoir Details the Struggles of Growing Up as an LGBTQ+ Member in the 70s

Mythological Goddess and Champion of Women’s Rights Walk Side by Side in “The Light of Ishtar”

“Living in Color” Paints Love as the Best Treatment in One Couple’s Cancer Journey

“Flight of the Beautiful Lie” Soars With the Resiliency of a Transgender Woman-of-Color

“Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes” May Be Less Painful With the Support of This Book

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

Impactful Memoir “Triple Jeopardy” Proves Dr. Rita Ali Is a Fighter

Malaka Gharib and the Elusive American Dream

Office Worker Turned Travel Junkie in “Ten Years a Nomad”

“American Oz” Pulls the Curtain on Carnival Life to Show Us Ourselves

The Bella Twins Prove “Incomparable” in Their New Memoir

“The Room Where It Happened:” A Comprehensive Account of the Trump Administration

A Woman’s Quest to Learn About What Her Family “Abandoned in Berlin”

A Mother-Daughter Bond of Lies and Secrets in “Wild Game”

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