Marion Roach

An account of a young woman's search for understanding and hope as she helplessly witnesses her mother's growing disorientation due to Alzheimer's disease

Part history, part cultural commentary, part memoir, The Roots of Desire is a witty and entertaining investigation into what it means to be a redhead.A redhead rarely goes unnoticed in a crowded room. From Judas Iscariot to Botticelli's Venus to Julianne Moore, redheads have been worshipped, idealized, fetishized, feared, and condemned, leaving their mark on us and our culture. Such is

Writing What You Realia is the essential, eccentric guidebook for anyone telling their own story--in print or on a blog. Stop treading water in writing exercises or hiding behind "writer's block," and learn to write memoir with intent, starting today. Marion Roach Smith's disarmingly frank but wildly fun tactics will teach you how.Marion Roach Smith, co-founder of TheSisterProject.c