Chrysta Bilton’s mother was a lesbian who asked a man she’d just met to be her sperm donor. It was only much later that Bilton learned the same man had donated sperm to countless other women. Bilton tells the story of connecting with her 35 siblings and her unusual childhood in her memoir Normal Family.
Ken Tucker reviews Bartees Strange’s new album, Farm to Table.
Rafael Agustin’s parents were physicians in Ecuador, but when they came to the U.S. they worked at a car wash and Kmart to get by. It wasn’t until he was a teen that he learned they were undocumented. Agustin tells his story in his new memoir, Illegally Yours. He wrote for the TV series Jane the Virgin and is the CEO of the Latino Film Institute.
