Biography & Memoirs

The new book by award-winning journalist and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick.

Grownupedness is a personal memoir, rich with the insight of Clarissa P. Green's decades-long career as a university professor and family therapist working with aging parents and their mid-life children.

Carmen is vigorously polishing one of our three telephones. I am just twenty-five, Canadian, new to Britain and in awe of this formidable woman but as there are only two of us in the office I feel emboldened to ask: Why did you start Virago? She looks up and without missing a beat, replies To change the world, darling. Thats why.

From the author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, this superb memoir chronicles the evolution of a farm, marriage, family, and her own personal identity with humor, insight, and candor (Publishers Weekly, starred review) detailing life on Essex Farma 500-acre farm that produces food for a community of 250 people.

The moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son. An intimate, unflinching look at mortality and how to live.

Quest for Eternal Sunshine chronicles the triumphant, true story of Mendek Rubin, a brilliant inventor who overcame both the trauma of the Holocaust and decades of unrelenting depression to live a life of deep peace and boundless joy.