Anyone with any amount of life experience can write a memoir-no dramatic childhood or odd-defying life accomplishments required. SHORT MEMOIRS ABOUT GROWING UP SCAACHI KOUL, “THERE’S NO RECIPE FOR GROWING UP” A short memoir might be an account of a single, life-changing event, or it may be reflection on a period of growth or transition. In this delightful essay, Koul talks about trying to learn the secrets of her mother’s Kashmiri cooking after growing up a first-generation American. The story is full of vivid descriptions and anecdotal details that capture something so specific it transcends to the realm of universal. FORD, “THE YEAR I GREW WILDLY WHILE MEN LOOKED ON” It’s smart, it’s funny, and it’ll break your heart a little as Koul describes “trying to find my mom at the bottom of a 20-quart pot.” ASHLEY C. This memoir essay is for all the girls who went through puberty early in a world that sexualizes children’s bodies. Ford weaves together her experiences of feeling at odds with her body, of being seen as a “distraction” to adult men, of being Black and fatherless and hungry for love. She writes, “It was evident that who I was inside, who I wanted to be, didn’t match the intentions of my body. Outside, there was no little girl to be loved innocently. My body was a barrier.” Kaveh Akbar, “How I Found Poetry in Childhood Prayer”Īkbar writes intense, searing poetry, but this personal essay contextualizes one of his sweetest poems, “Learning to Pray,” which is cradled in the middle of it. He describes how he fell in love with the movement, the language, and the ceremony of his Muslim family’s nightly prayers.
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