For any mother or daughter who's longed for the perfect relationship, yet seen it dangling tantalizingly out of reach, Spiegelman's perceptive and poetic family memoir will be a salve.
This powerful memoir is a remarkably perceptive exploration of identity – of blood, language, religion and land – by someone intensely aware of the forces shaping European history and politics.
There was no real-life memoir, but the line is perceptive.
Mr. Bley has recently published a memoir in which he proves to be a perceptive jazz critic as well as an engaging storyteller.
She is also adept at the telling phrase and makes splendid use of the period's vivid letters, diaries and memoirs, from John Hervey and Horace Walpole and the perceptive Fanny Burney, to the Dorset farmer's niece Elizabeth Ham, a caustic observer of "farmer George".
Newley has done us all a great favour by producing this admirably succinct memoir, with its rare photographs, outrageous anecdotes, transcribed routines and perceptive affection.
Jonathan Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone (Fourth Estate) was a great pleasure, containing some perceptive and beautiful writing about family and childhood.
His interest in Deep Throat did not emerge until 20 years later, when he began work on a memoir, "Crazy Rhythm," which was published in 1997 and is by far the most emotionally perceptive of all the Watergate memoirs.
Writing his memoir drew White back into recollections of his own childhood, to considerations of the adolescent mind — how wonderfully perceptive it is, how easily bruised.
