In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the “necessary rituals” that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation.

Imani Perry is the 2023 UUA General Assembly Ware Lecturer

An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America

Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction

From Chloé Cooper Jones - Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient - a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen

A 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Memoir/Autobiography

Why do people pass? Fifteen writers reveal their experiences with passing—including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic forms of passing.

2023 General Assembly Featured Speaker

A raw, poetic, coming-of-age “masterwork” (The New York Times) about Blackness, masculinity and addiction

How do we grieve our losses? How can we care for our spirits? one long listening offers enduring companionship to all who ask these searing, timeless questions.

With penetrating insight, Karen Van Fossan blends memoir, history, and cultural critique to take readers behind the scenes of the resistance efforts to two colonial pipelines.

A 2024 Silver Nautilus Award Winner in the Memoir category

Widely heralded as a leading feminist scholar, bell hooks also identified as a Buddhist Christian who believed that love was the antidote to oppression. In bell hooks' Spiritual Vision, Nadra Nittle traces the spirituality in hooks' writings. The book shows hooks as a feminist and a believer who knit together her political and spiritual practices.

A young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming

Celebratory and empowering, these stories are a reminder of the power joy can bring.

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall - Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

A useful and touching guide on gender identity - what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR).