Dark at the Roots
A Memoir
SARAH THYRE

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

A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century
A Memoir
JANE VANDENBURGH

In the midst of private trauma and loss, Vandenburgh delights in revealing large truths about American culture and her life within it. Quirky, witty, and uncannily wise, A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century is a brilliant blend of memoir and cultural revelation.

“A writer of great daring and skill to match.” —Newsweek

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-459-9 | Cloth | $25.00

The Last Goodnights
Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides
JOHN WEST

John West’s memoir provides a unique, powerful, and unflinching look inside the reality of one of the most galvanizing issues of our time: assisted suicide. Told with intensity and bare honesty, his account of the deaths of his parents is both gritty and loving, frightening and illuminating, nerve-wracking and even, at times, darkly humorous.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-448-3 | Cloth | $25.00

The Glen Rock Book of the Dead
Marion Winik

The Glen Rock Book of the Dead presents snapshot portraits of The Jeweler, The Driving Instructor, The Bad Influence—and roughly fifty others who have touched Winik’s life in some way, from her son’s second-grade teacher to Keith Haring. Winik ties these portraits together with observations that strike chords of both loss and joy—forming not only an autobiography but a story of our time.

“Her fascinating, tiny tributes tell the bare-assed truth about relationships while coming together to create a portrait of Winik’s imperfect, love-filled life.” —More magazine, “Best Books of 2008”

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-634-0 | Trade Paper | $12.95

White Like Me
Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
TIM WISE

“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

A Step from Death
A Memoir
LARRY WOIWODE

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

Corvus
A Life with Birds
ESTHER WOOLFSON

Woolfson describes in loving detail the intelligence, evolution, and capacity for affection of her pet corvids (a group that includes crows, ravens, and magpies), inviting us to reconsider the type of creature capable of being man’s best friend.

“A tender and nuanced book . . . richly observed and finely written.” —Guardian (London)

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-477-3 | Cloth | $25.00

I’m In the Band
Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie
SEAN YSEULT

I’m In the Band chart’s White Zombie’s rise, while sharing the unlikely story of a female musician who won the respect of male metal musicians and fans.

“How the liner notes for the White Zombie set shoulda been.” —James Greene, Jr., Crawdaddy!

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-299-5 | TRADE PAPER ORIGINAL| $22.95