Sentimental moments are tempered with just enough dry wit in this collection of essays exploring Hollis Gillespie’s unpredictable childhood and the very similar lifestyle she took on as an adult....
Life in a band is exhilarating, and Laurie Lindeen, who formed the trio Zuzu’s Petals with her gal pals in the midst of the 1980s Minneapolis indie-rock scene, takes her readers along on her surprisingly deep, personal journey....
Helen Walsh's novel about an interracial couple struggling with the racist small-town England of the 1970s and ’80s courses with life but leaves us desensitized in the end....