Asher, Zain. Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable. Amistad: HarperCollins. Apr. 2022. 288p. ISBN 9780063048836. $27.99. lrg. prnt. MEMOIR

Morton, Brian. Tasha: A Son’s Memoir. Avid: S. & S. Apr. 2022. 224p. ISBN 9781982178932. $27. CD. MEMOIR

Philpott, Mary Laura. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives. Atria. Apr. 2022. 288p. ISBN 9781982160784. $27. CD. MEMOIR

Swenson, Kate. Forever Boy: A Mother’s Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy. Park Row: Harlequin. Apr. 2022. 320p. ISBN 9780778311997. $27.99. CD. MEMOIR

Trujillo, Laura. Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter’s Search for Truth and Renewal. Random. Apr. 2022. 208p. ISBN 9780593157619. $27. Downloadable. MEMOIR

In Where the Children Take Us, CNN anchor Asher celebrates the strength of her first-generation British Nigerian mother, who overcame grief when her husband was killed in a South London car accident to raise four accomplished children, including Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (125,000-copy first printing). Multi-award-winning novelist Morton writes about his fierce and irrepressible educator mother, Tasha, from whom he spent a lifetime carefully cushioning himself and who still proves a handful when he must intervene as caregiver as she grows older (75,000-copy first printing). Author of the laugh-out-loud best seller I Miss You When I Blink, self-professed worrywart Philpott practically built a Bomb Shelter to protect her children, then realized during the crisis that unfolded after she found her teenage son unconscious on the floor that she couldn’t control everything (100,000-copy first printing). Forever Boy, Swenson’s account of raising a son with severe autism, should attract a big audience—and not just because of the subject’s importance; Swenson’s blog/Facebook page Finding Cooper’s Voice has 655,000 followers, and her TODAY-featured video, “The Last Time It’s Going To Be Okay,” has been viewed over 30 million times (75,000-copy first printing). Expanding on a 2018 USA TODAY story that has had more than 1.5 million page views, Trujillo examines the aftermath of her mother’s suicide in Stepping Back from the Ledge, explaining that she had to face deep sorrows in her mother’s life and her own.