The Book Company: New Products - Personal Memoirs

Tomatoes Free for the Asking (A Minnesota Boyhood) - 9780878396481

Fri, 26 Aug 2016 01:15:31 +0000

"Tomatoes free for the asking" is a quaint term remembered from the 1800s, yet heard in the 1950s of Stever's youth. It was a simple expression written on a piece of cardboard set alongside a pile of tomatoes near someone's garden or on the front porch. It was an invitation to take as you wish, wi..

Price: $9.99

My Korean Deli (Risking It All for a Convenience Store) (Henry Holt and Co.)

Wed, 27 Jul 2016 01:11:44 +0000

This warm and funny tale of an earnest preppy editor finding himself trapped behind the counter of a Brooklyn convenience store is about family, culture and identity in an age of discombobulation.

It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants,..

Price: $25.00

Poser (My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Wed, 27 Jul 2016 01:08:36 +0000

The studio was decorated in the style of Don’t Be Afraid, We’re Not a Cult. All was white and blond and clean, as though the room had been designed for surgery, or Swedish people. The only spot of color came from the Tibetan prayer flags strung over the doorway into the..

Price: $26.00

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (A Memoir of Going Home) (Henry Holt and Co.)

Wed, 27 Jul 2016 01:08:30 +0000

A hilarious and moving memoir—in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron—about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis
Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilli..
Price: $22.00

My First Crush (Misadventures in Wine Country)

Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:31:05 +0000

When Linda Kaplan’s husband buys a vineyard, all she can do is jump in and start crushing grapes.
Price: $14.95

My Life as a Russian Novel (A Memoir)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:21:13 +0000

An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological suspense
In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losin..
Price: $25.00

Revolution (The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:20:42 +0000

Rising literary star Deb Olin Unferth offers a new twist on the coming-of-age memoir in this utterly unique and captivating story of the year she ran away from college with her Christian boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.
Despite their earnest commitment ..
Price: $24.00

The Guardians (An Elegy)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:10:15 +0000

The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, “An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the station on West 254th Street.” Sarah M..
Price: $20.00

My Father's Fortune (A Life)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:10:02 +0000

For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny,"* turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story, to re-create the world that made him who he is
Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright M..
Price: $25.00

Sometimes There Is a Void (Memoirs of an Outsider)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:09:54 +0000

Zakes Mda is the most acclaimed South African writer of the independence era. His eight novels tell stories that venture far beyond the conventional narratives of a people’s struggle against apartheid. In this memoir, he tells the story of a life that intersects with the political ..
Price: $35.00