Personal Memoirs

Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother:

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: The Truth About College

Twin: A Memoir

The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir

A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of t he Great Depression

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

The Memory Chalet:

After the Falls: Coming of Age in the Sixties

Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd

Un Amico Italiano: Eat, Pray, Love in Rome

Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea