Hua Hsu’s Tender Elegy to a Lost Friend Resonates
The memoir Stay True is a powerful tribute to a friendship cut short by tragedy and to writing as a tool for survival.
Surviving the Tiger Pit: How a Journalist’s Family Story Pushed Her to Report on a Failed Mental Health System
In a moving memoir, journalist Meg Kissinger tells the story of her own family’s struggles with mental illness, and how those experiences fueled her passion to be an investigative reporter and storyteller.
‘Hope Was Still Waiting for Me’: Finding a Sanctuary in Fantasy Fiction
“Watching the protagonists try to solve world-threatening problems made my own feel smaller and easier to handle.” -Kendall Covington, writer
No Illusion: Fantasy Fiction is My Safe Space
“By reading fantasy fiction, I got to see people like me overcome obstacles I thought impossible.” –Hermes Falcon, writer.
Young Readers Struggling with ‘Reality Overload’ Drive Surging Sales of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
During the pandemic, “our worlds became very small, and fantasy fiction provided this vast opportunity to delve into worlds unknown.”
Teen Expert Lisa Damour Wants Us All to Embrace Sadness
Damour wants us to realize that stress, irritability and unhappiness are as normal in teens as joy.
Famished for Care: Two Books on Eating Disorders from Experts Who Have Grappled with Them
The information on eating disorders is often complex, thorny and conflicting. Here are two recent books for parents that can help guide you and your child through this grueling time.
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté’s book explores childhood trauma’s devastating impact on people and our society – and what we can do to reverse the damage.
Lonely in America
Loneliness is natural, “designed to alert its host to a need, just like sensations of hunger or thirst or exhaustion.”
Curbing the Overdose Epidemic: An Author’s Call to Drop Our Moralistic Blinders and Save Lives
Author Maia Szalavitz makes a formidable case that embracing harm reduction will help end the opioid overdose epidemic.
“Crying in H Mart” Resonates in a Time of Endless Loss
“Crying in H Mart” helps a Korean-American family through grievous loss.
How Psychosis and Internet Obsession Brought Two Girls to the Brink of Murder
In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured a third into the woods and stabbed her repeatedly. The stabbings tell a tragic story about the deficiencies of the mental health and criminal justice systems in the U.S. – and the terrible things that often happen when they collide. Kathleen Hale tells this story in her new book.
