Anya Yurchyshyn at Newtonville Books

All parents keep secrets from their children, but Anya Yurchyshyn’s parents kept more than most. In her heartbreaking memoir, My Dead Parents, Yurchyshyn investigates the secret lives her alcoholic mother and rage-filled father led before her birth. When orphaned at 32, Yurchyshyn discovered letters, journals and photographs that revealed the stiff, unhappy parents she thought she knew were once a couple filled with unbridled passion. But the evidence isn’t all bliss, as she discovers that the car crash that killed her father may not have been an accident. Uncover the truth on April 11, when Yurchyshyn visits Newtonville Books.  / Brynne Crawley