Barely out of diapers, Sarah Thyre started devising schemes to catapult herself out of her middle-class, middle-child life. Thyre paints her early life with razor-sharp prose, braced with the best kind of humor: the kind that makes us laugh so hard, it keeps us from crying.

“Brilliantly observed and remarkably humane, Dark is a charmer.” —People

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-396-7 | Trade Paper | $14.95

“White Like Me is the most important memoir by a white person about how race and racism affect everyday life since Lois Mark Stalvey’s The Education of a WASP.”
—James Loewen, best-selling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-99-3 | Trade Paper | $13.95

In A Step from Death, Woiwode addresses his son as the intimate heir to the writer’s interior. Through a series of memories, Woiwode leads us to his contemplation on his proximity to death. As Kirkus Reviews rightly said of Woiwode’s previous memoir, What I Think I Did, this new memoir is also a work of “purest sense and sensitivity.”

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-373-8 | Cloth | $24.00