Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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A slate of memoirs presents stories full of resilience, family history, and self-reflection.

Lauren Hough, Monster of a Land (Pantheon: Penguin Random House)
Learn more about this book: penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9780593686621

Also featuring:
Asale Angel-Ajani, Fugitive Archives: My Family and the American Myth of Belonging (Algonquin: Hachette)
Reyna Grande, Migrant Heart (Atria/Primero Sueno Press: Simon & Schuster)
Riad Sattouf, The End of the Arab of the Future (Fantagraphics)
Chris Young, The Wound Is Where the Light Enters (Little, Brown and Company: Hachette)
Moderator: Joanna Burkhardt, Collection Development Officer, University of Rhode Island