Andreas, Peter. Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution. S. & S. Apr. 2017. 336p. ISBN 9781501124396. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781501124457. MEMOIR In the Sixties, conventional housewife Carol Andreas morphed into a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary, running through numerous husbands and lovers as she sought for and fought for important causes. She took her youngest son along on her marches, eventually kidnapping him after losing a nasty custody battle. Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University, recounts the pleasures and drawbacks of a peripatetic, radicalized childhood and his close bond with his mother. Atwood, Roman. Will Work for Smiles. Gallery: S. & S. Apr. 2017. 256p. ISBN 9781501145742. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781501145766. MEMOIR Barely employed, newly married, and expecting a first child after he graduated from high school, Atwood cheered himself up by turning to his first love, filming pranks and otherwise funny videos. The result? He was No. 8 on Forbes’s list of Top-Earning YouTube Stars for 2015, named a top ten “Fame Changer” by Variety in 2016, and that year wrote, starred in, and directed the feature-length film Natural Born Pranksters, which reached No. 2 on the iTunes Top Charts. Not such a slacker after all. Baldwin, Alec. Nevertheless: A Memoir. Harper. Apr. 2017. 400p. ISBN 9780062409706. $28.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062409737. lrg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio. MEMOIR Winner of multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actor’s Guild awards, Baldwin follows up his New York Times best-selling A Promise to Ourselves with a full-scale memoir tracking his burdened Long Island childhood, struggles as a young actor, and long and successful career shadowed by troubles with addiction and acknowledged failings as a husband and father. With a 250,000-copy first printing; Baldwin has lots of social media followers, plus a WNYC podcast and a Huffington Post column, for promoting this book. Harden, Marcia Gay. The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers. Atria. Apr. 2017. 288p. ISBN 9781501135705. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781501135729. MEMOIR Because constant travel eventually took her military family to Japan, where her mother coped by becoming absorbed in Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, Harden frames this memoir with flower images. (The Ikebana arrangements shown were created especially for this book.) Harden’s mother is currently battling Alzheimer’s and cannot recall her life, so Harden does it for her, blending in accounts of her own rise to Tony and Academy Award–winning actress. Jenner, Caitlyn & Buzz Bissinger. Caitlyn Jenner Memoir. Grand Central. Apr. 2017. 356p. ISBN 9781455596751. $29; ebk. ISBN 9781455596720. lib. ebk. ISBN 9781455596768. CD: Hachette Audio. MEMOIR You can’t have missed one of the biggest news stories of 2015—Jenner’s transition from Bruce to Caitlyn—but here are in-depth details and new information on how Jenner views the world through her new identity. Jenner’s coauthor, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Bissinger, wrote the high-profile Vanity Fair piece that introduced Caitlyn Jenner to the world. With a five-city author tour; big expectations. Jones, Chipper with Carroll Rogers Walton. Ballplayer: My Story. Dutton. Apr. 2017. 384p. ISBN 9781101984406. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781101984413. CD/downloadable: Penguin Audio. MEMOIR A third baseman and legendary switch-hitter, the Hall of Fame–worthy Jones racked up some amazing statistics during his 19-year major league career, spent entirely with the Atlanta Braves. Here he chronicles his career, comments on his teammates, analyzes top moments pitch by pitch, and reflects on money- and steroid-soaked baseball today. With a ten-city author tour. Kym, Min. Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung. Crown. Apr. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9780451496072. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780451496096. Downloadable: Random Audio. MEMOIR South Korean–born Kym’s family defied family expectations by moving their musical prodigy daughter to England for her studies, then saw her win first prize at the Mozart International Competition at age 11 and in 1991, at age 13,  make her international debut with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Her life was on the up and up until 2010, when her invaluable 1696 Stradivarius—as close and important to her as breathing—was stolen from a café near a London Underground Station. It was eventually recovered—with complications. Here’s a meditation, then, on loss, love, and art. Leite, David. Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression. Dey Street: HarperCollins. Apr. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9780062414373. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062414397. MEMOIR Founded in 1999, Leite’s Culinaria won the first ever James Beard Award for a website in 2006—and again in 2007—and Leite’s The New Portuguese Table also won the 2010 IACP First Book/Julia Child Award. But this isn’t just a foodie’s memoir. Leite grew up in a blue-collar, food-loving Portuguese home in Fall River, MA, longing for middle-class stability and struggling with bipolar disorder, which was not diagnosed until his mid-thirties. Meanwhile, he threw himself into cooking, as readers will throw themselves into this book; Leite’s Culinaria is read by more than seven million readers annually. With a 100,000-copy first printing. Lynch, Barbara. Out of Line: The Unlikely Education of an Improbable Chef. Atria. Apr. 2017. 320p. ISBN 9781476795447. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781476795461. MEMOIR Lynch here recounts how she got from a tough South Boston childhood—one of seven children born to a single mother, she indulged in drugs and alcohol and constantly dodged arrest for petty theft—to the top of the culinary heap. You can’t get much better than multiple James Beard awards, including Outstanding Restaurateur (only the second woman to win) and the Relais & Chateau designation of Grand Chef (one of only six in North America). But she still celebrates her Irish American roots. Osbourne, Kelly. There Is No F*cking Secret: Letters from a Badass Bitch. Putnam. Apr. 320p. ISBN 9780399176562. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780698409897. CD/downloadable: Penguin Audio. MEMOIR Daughter of heavy metal king Ozzy Osbourne, familiar to many from her family’s eponymous reality TV show, and an actress, singer-songwriter, and television and fashion personality in her own right, Osbourne is here to explain that there is no secret to her glide from self-styled ugly duckling to lavender-haired swan. Since Osbourne has four million followers on Twitter and almost two million followers on both Facebook and Instagram, you know there will be readers. Oxford, Kelly. When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments. Dey Street: HarperCollins. Apr. 2017. 336p. ISBN 9780062322777. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062322791. MEMOIR Named one of Rolling Stone’s Funniest People on Twitter and the New York Times best-selling author of Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar, Oxford draws on her own life to pinpoint what’s crazy-absurd about the modern world. She’s got over half a million Twitter followers, and it’s instructive to learn that they include not only actors, directors, newsmakers, and folks like us but, reputedly, Chef Boyardee and Grumpy Cat. With a 75,000-copy first printing. Radtke, Kristen. Imagine Wanting Only This. Pantheon. Apr. 2017. 288p. ISBN 9781101870839. $29.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101870846. GRAPHIC MEMOIR Managing editor of Sarabande Books, film and video editor of TriQuarterly magazine, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in nonfiction, and a practiced reviewer of graphic novels, Radtke here captures the sometimes chilling, sometimes wistful sensation we have of people lost to us and places left behind. Elegant black-and-white illustrations range from abandoned Midwest towns and Italian villas to a beloved uncle who died when Radtke was in college. With a six-city tour to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Iowa City, New York, and San Diego. Silver, Elizabeth L. The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty. Penguin Pr. Apr. 2017. 256p. ISBN 9781101981443. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781101981467. MEMOIR Silver, who got rave reviews for her debut novel, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, turns to memoir to describe the devastating first year of her daughter, Abby, who suffered a mysterious brain bleed when she was six weeks old. Dozens of specialists have failed to determine what went wrong or what Abby’s future will bring, which turns Silver’s narrative into a study of uncertainty and of our too blind faith in medicine—something Silver felt acutely as the daughter of a surgeon. Singh, Lilly. How To Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life. Ballantine. Apr. 2017. 272p. ISBN 9780425286463. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780425286470. CD/downloadable: Random Audio. MEMOIR Singh takes the message behind her inspirational and uber-watched YouTube videos and turns them into essays on how to be your own bawse, that is, a supremely self-confident person who can get through anything. For her work, she’s been named one of Time’s 2016 “30 Most Influential People on the Internet,” Variety’s "10 Comics To Watch for 2016,“ Forbes’s “30 under 30," Vogue’s “8 YouTube Stars That Are Taking Over the World,” and more, which certainly explains publisher excitement about the book.