Ghostbread (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)
"Exquisite in its details and insights,Ghostbreadshows us the invisible undersides of poverty. Sonja Livingston renders this so solidly that we come to understand the roots of despair, and the beauty that can be found in the midst of squalor. In an age when memoir exploits the seamier sides of life, thrusting their authors into the limelight, this book holds back, quietly resisting shock value in favor of understanding."—Judith Kitchen, author ofHouse on Eccles Road