Books like The fact of a body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Roxane Gay’s memoir "Hunger" confronts her struggles with food, body image, and trauma, offering a candid look at healing through self‑care and acceptance.

Eve Dallas has a new case in Manhattan, while rural Arkansas faces the unexpected terror of Ella‑Loo, whose obsession with her ex‑con boyfriend turns deadly.

Henrietta Bennett, a Southern heiress, thrives as a jazz‑era socialite and publishing heir before her fierce lesbian romances provoke scandal and a life of addiction. Her story blends glamour, alcoholism, and LGBTQ history.

Imani Perry’s biography unearths Lorraine Hansberry’s vibrant life, from her groundbreaking work on civil rights and politics to her candid identity as a lesbian, offering a comprehensive view beyond her famous play.

Juliet Nicolson traces the hidden histories of seven generations of women, unraveling family myths and secrets across Europe and America while exploring how past patterns shape her own life.

A biography that reveals the hidden life of Samuel M. Steward—novelist, poet, professor, and post‑Stonewall tattoo artist—through unpublished diaries and research correspondence, illustrating early homosexual existence in America.

A powerful memoir of Charles M. Blow’s rise from a childhood marked by violence and racism in segregated Louisiana to becoming a leading journalist and public intellectual.

In 1921, John S. Williams’s Georgia plantation, still run by enslaved labor, becomes the site of a chilling federal investigation after the governor orders the destruction of evidence. The case, involving the murder of slaves and a trial that captured national attention, marks a turning point in the treatment of black Americans.

Explores the shocking case of six‑year‑old Lisa Steinberg’s murder, examining the psychological, sexual, and social dynamics that led to the crime.

"In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon Klayman Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop, she discusses various kinds and functions of self-harm behavior. From eating disorders to body modifications such as tattooing, Dr. Farber explores the language of self-harm, and the translation of that language and its psychic functions in the therapeutic setting. She tells us, "When the body weeps tears of blood, we need to wonder what terrible sorrows cannot be spoken." Illustrated with clinical material, this book offers a practical approach to the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of the increasing number of patients whose emotions are expressed through bodily harm. The challenges of working with patients who tend to view the world of relationships in terms of predator and prey are clearly explicated and the stormy countertransference responses that threaten to destroy the treatment are given a full hearing. Finally, she shows how the attachment relationship formed in treatment can repair the traumatic attachment in mind, body, psyche, and soul, and can serve as the cornerstone of therapeutic change."--BOOK JACKET.

Edmund White delivers a meticulous biography of Jean Genet, tracing the French writer’s criminal past, gay life, political engagement, and artistic output, while analyzing his plays, novels, and essays.

A memoir by journalist Kevin Sessums that reflects on his life growing up in Mississippi and his career in American journalism.

A memoir exploring the intersection of Christian Science, religion, and family in 20th-century America.

Ana Castillo’s memoir, *Black Dove*, traces her life as a Chicana single mother amid mass incarceration and racial injustice, weaving personal history with the broader struggle for Mexican‑American families.

John Lahr’s biography offers an intimate, thoroughly researched portrait of Tennessee Williams, exploring his family, creativity, sexuality, and legacy as a transformative American playwright.