Hair matters. And these writers go to great lengths to help us understand why. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women’s lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality. They take place inContinue reading

The Third Son by Julie Wu: In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a peach forest for cover. It’s there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is aContinue reading

From Freudian to sentimental, our thoughts turn to mom this time of year. This month’s collection of Lucky 7 e-books–just $1.99 each through April 30–looks at the complex, comforting, and confounding relationships between mothers and children. Each e-book also contains a free preview of What My Mother Gave Me, the upcoming anthology edited by ElizabethContinue reading

Put your worries aside, yesterday was no joke.  It really is Giveaway Week here at Algonquin!  We’re continuing the series with a Happy Pub Day giveaway… What My Mother Gave Me edited by Elizabeth Benedict As Elizabeth Benedict writes in her introduction to this collection, “we may not know for quite some time which presentsContinue reading