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Memoirs
Blood Strangers: A Memoir Blood Strangers is a captivating, multigenerational story of an alternative family. In her memoir, Katherine A. Briccetti writes about three generations of missing fathers: her father's closed adoption in the 1930s, her own adoption by her stepfather in the 1960s,...
Medicine Trails: A Life in Many Worlds Sometime in 1933, in Northern California's lush Humboldt County, a Karuk medicine woman named Daisy Jones had a vision identifying the tribe's next medicine woman. Later that year, Mavis Smither (McCovey) was born, and in the first twelve years of...
Where Light Takes Its Color from the Sea: A California Notebook Taking inspiration from California's breathtaking landscapes, history, and distinctive ways of life, Where Light Take Its Color from the Sea reveals a writer's keen appreciation of place. This selection of James D. Houston's essays and short stories illuminates the themes...
Walking Tractor And Other Country Tales Imagine driving a tractor at fifteen miles per hour on a highway. "Walking tractor" is just one of the odd jobs Bruce Patterson has gotten good at. Set in northern California's Anderson Valley, these personal essays tell of Patterson's love...
Tree Barking: A Memoir As a home health therapist, Nesta Rovina has seen and heard it all: a stroke victim who learned to roll off her bed at night to avoid getting caught in the crossfire of rival gangs and drug dealers; a man...
Ticket to Exile At age nineteen, A. D. Miller sat in a jail cell. His crime? He passed a white girl a note that read, "I would like to get to know you better." For this he was accused of attempted rape. Ticket...
Perfume Dreams:
Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese...
The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America As a young girl growing up in California, Pati Navalta Poblete is dismayed to find her American way of life interrupted when her four grandparents arrive from the Philippines. Turning her adolescence upside down, they inspire her to name them...
The Morning the Sun Went Down Born into the Achumawi and Atusgewi tribes (often called the Pit River Nation) of northeastern California, Darryl Babe Wilson's early years were spent with his parents and eight brothers and sisters, in a world still rich in Indian tradition, feeling,...
Fast Cars and Frybread:
Reports from the Rez These essays are about fiestas with frybread and beans, storytelling, dancing, snow cones, dogfights, and sometimes human fights. They are about sweat lodges and funerals and the dangers of "commod bod" (obesity caused by eating government surplus food). They are...
Farmworker's Daughter:
Growing Up Mexican in America When Rose Castillo Guilbault was five years old, she and her recently divorced mother crossed the border from Nogales, Sonora, to Nogales, Arizona, and boarded a Greyhound bus that would carry them to California's Salinas Valley and a new life....
Blithe Tomato Across America, people are escaping fluorescent-lit grocery store aisles to rediscover the fresh, seasonal offerings of the farmers' market. A new and thriving culture has sprung up as thousands gather each weekend to pinch, poke, smell, and probe the produce—and...
The Autobiography of
Lincoln Steffens Here, in what The Nation publisher Victor Navasky says "ought to be assigned reading," is the autobiography of one of the world's first celebrity journalists: Lincoln Steffens, a man whose writing was so notorious that President Theodore Roosevelt coined a...
AutoBioDiversity:
True Stories from ZYZZYVA This collection of true stories celebrates the 20th anniversary of ZYZZYVA, the journal of West Coast writers and artists. Founding editor Howard Junker selects his fifth anthology from the pages of ZYZZYVA, and includes voices from across the full spectrum...
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