The Light of the World
by Elizabeth Alexander | 
What Comes Next and How to Like It
by Abigail Thomas | 
Half a Life
by Darin Strauss | 
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
by T. Kira Madden |
Once More We Saw Stars
by Jayson Greene | 
Love Life
by Rob Lowe | 
Heart Berries
by Terese Marie Mailhot | 
The Only Girl in the Car
by Kathy Dobie | 
Fat Girl
by Judith Moore | 
A Match to the Heart
by Gretel Ehrlich | 
Sky of Stone
by Homer Hickam | 
Townie
by Andre Dubus III | 
The Camera My Mother Gave Me
by Susanna Kaysen |
Toil & Trouble
by Augusten Burroughs | 
The Chronology of Water
by Lidia Yuknavitch | 
Faith to Foster
by T. J. Menn |
Everything You Ever Wanted
by Jillian Lauren | 
Half Baked
by Alexa Stevenson | 
Now I See the Moon
by Elaine Hall | 
This Lovely Life
by Vicki Forman |
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child.