![]() ‘ Taste: My Life Through Food,’ by Stanley Tucci Tell us: What memoir would you add to this list? She puts it simply: “I do not want to forget, though sometimes memory appears to be an enemy bringing only pain.” Harjo, the first Native poet laureate, draws on her family’s ancestral stories and artistic influences in her second autobiography, which she wrote in verse and prose. 7 | Read our review ‘ Poet Warrior,’ by Joy Harjo Our reviewer said it belongs in “the canon as one of the necessary documents of 9/11.” ![]() ( His brother, also a New York City firefighter, died during a rescue mission in one of the towers.) But the book is also a personal exploration Pfeifer examines his closest relationships, his past as a seminarian and his calling to the Fire Department. Pfeifer, a New York Fire Department battalion chief on the scene on 9/11, shares some of the horror - and the valor - he witnessed. 7 | Read our review ‘ Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11,’ by Joseph Pfeifer Wang, now a civil rights lawyer, focuses on her early years in the United States, and how she and her family grappled with the precarity and vulnerability they faced.ĭoubleday, Sept. As a young child, the author fled China for New York, where she and her parents were undocumented for years. ![]()
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