In her expansive discussion of new memoirs by Susanne Paola Antonetta, Ingrid Horrocks, and Andrea Ross, reviewer Nicole Walker considers, among other things, the nature of both writing and reading: “Writing memoir features many of the same conditions as self-view: full of self-consciousness, self-doubt, self-absorption, and self-annihilation. But reading memoir doesn’t carry quite the same furtiveness: it is like sitting down with someone who has something to say, generally over a cup of coffee.”